About The Word Navigation
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Navigation
Navigation Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Navigation?
[n] the work of a sailor
[n] the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [n] ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" Synonyms | Synonyms for Navigation: pilotage | piloting | sailing | seafaring Related Terms | Find terms related to Navigation: aim | astronavigation | automatic electronic navigation | azimuth | bearing | bent | boating | canoeing | cartography | celestial navigation | chorography | circumnavigation | coasting | consolan | course | cruising | current | direction | direction line | drift | electronic navigation | geodesy | geodetic satellite | geography | gunkholing | heading | helmsmanship | inclination | lay | lie | line | line of direction | line of march | loran | motorboating | navar | navigability | navigating | omnidirectional range | omnirange | orbiting geophysical observatory | orientation | passage-making | periplus | pilotage | piloting | point | quarter | radar | radio navigation | range | rowing | run | sailing | sculling | sea travel | seafaring | seamanship | set | shoran | steaming | steerage | steering | surveying | tacan | teleran | tendency | tenor | topography | track | travel by water | trend | VAR | visual-aural range | voyaging | water travel | way | yachting See Also | astronavigation | cabotage | celestial navigation | dead reckoning | direction | employment | guidance | instrument flying | shipping | steerage | steering | transport | transportation | work Navigation In Webster's Dictionary \Nav`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. navigatio: cf. F.
navigation.]
1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in
ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
2.
(a) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from
one place to another, including, more especially, the
method of determining a ship's position, course,
distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the
globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.
(b) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics
of traveling by water; seamanship.
3. Ships in general. [Poetic] --Shak.
{A["e]rial navigation}, the act or art of sailing or floating
in the air, as by means of ballons; a["e]ronautic.
{Inland navigation}, {Internal navigation}, navigation on
rivers, inland lakes, etc.
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