Sentence examples for circle route from inspiring English sources

The great circle route westward over the Arctic.

Great circle route, the shortest course between two points on the surface of a sphere.

The archipelago is a hazardous traffic median in the great circle route, the shortest path between ports on either side of the North Pacific.

Alaska is central to the great circle route connecting North America with Asia by sea and air and is equidistant from most of Asia and Europe.

His main fear is of being run over by a steamer since the great circle route he will travel will put him in the steamer lanes the whole time.

(The geographical mile is defined as one minute of arc along the Earth's equator; compare the nautical mile, defined as one minute of arc along any great circle route).

Long-distance air traffic uses great circle routes routinely, saving time and fuel.

Polk's most productive routes are not so coincidentally routes where he makes less angled breaks like circle routes, bullets or posts.

Great circle routes are usually plotted on charts based on the gnomonic projection, on which great circles appear as straight lines.

Great circle routes, which require constantly changing headings, are most useful beyond the equatorial regions and for distances greater than several hundred miles.

Canada occupies a strategic global location, lying on great circle routes (the shortest line joining any two places on the globe) between the United States and Europe and, to a lesser degree, Asia.