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Dec 1, 2009
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great'-cir'cle track"




the route of a ship following the arc of a great circle, appearing as a curved line on a Mercator chart and as a straight line on a gnomonic chart.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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