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navigation

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Word definitions for navigation in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Navigation is the theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship, aircraft, or spaceship. Navigation may also refer to: Land navigation Air navigation Ship transport in general Web navigation , the process of browsing ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship 2 (context uncountable English) traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping 3 (context countable English) A canal ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: pilotage , piloting ] ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring , sailing ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navigation \Nav`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. navigatio: cf. F. navigation.] The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French navigation (14c.) or directly from Latin navigationem (nominative navigatio ) "a sailing, navigation, voyage," noun of action from past participle stem of navigare "to sail, sail over, go by sea, steer a ship," from navis "ship" ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES navigational/navigation aids (= that help you find the way you need to go when you are travelling from one place to another ) ▪ navigational aids such as radar COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN system ▪ Draper was a pioneer ...

Usage examples of navigation.

The house having addressed the king for a particular and distinct account of the distribution of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, charged to have been issued for securing the trade and navigation of the kingdom, and preserving and restoring the peace of Europe, he declined granting their request, but signified in general that part of the money had been issued and disbursed by his late majesty, and the remainder by himself, for carrying on the same necessary services, which required the greatest secrecy.

On the aft port corner wall, a door led to the navigation room, where the ESGN inertial navigation equipment was housed.

Murphy glanced aft of the periscope stand to the navigation chart, which showed their past track.

He was asking about the inertial navigation system that kept their position updated between fixes from the NAV SAT Linden leaned over the aft rail of the conn, over the chart table, and pointed with his finger to their estimated position.

By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.

The speech also informed the house that her majesty had ordered the return of her minister to the court of Persia, and announced that the differences which had arisen between Spain and Portugal about the execution of a treaty concluded by those powers in 1835, for regulating the navigation of the Douro had been amicably adjusted.

The Greek element is strong in the maritime towns, and displays its natural aptitude for navigation and commerce.

Place a rather picturesque view of the Aube, the navigation of which begins at the bridge.

But Jordan and other engineers at Stanford believed that the device might have a few practical applications and before long it became clear how stunningly correct they were - the audion was the first electronic vacuum tube, and its descendants ultimately made possible radio, television, radar, medical monitors, navigation systems and computers themselves.

Some kind of navigation system, Auger guessed, representing their flight through the hyperweb.

The Carbon Goose avionics had an excellent inertial navigation system, but it was hardly designed with this kind of stunt in mind.

Let the fliers watch fuel economy and not botch their navigation, and there would be no splashes.

With Calamy and Williamson, that makes six of the little beasts, and although I can teach them navigation when things are quiet and beat them whenever they need it, it seems a poor shabby thing to send them out into the world without a notion of history or French or hic haec hoc.

It was the cosmographer, Bartolomeo de Lasso, chief of the navigation in Spain, who had sent them to Plancius.

Unlike the others, however, it has cut a deal with the Cosmonaut Families of Mingulay to get in on the ground floor of any new trading patterns that their independent navigation may establish.