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, 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.
The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.
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Ships in general. [Poetic]
--Shak.A["e]rial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation; a["e]ronautic.
Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.
Usage examples of "aerial navigation".
It might naturally have been expected that a Frenchman who thought it worth his while to take any precautions against the extinction of the human race would, when it became a question of a flood, have turned to the aero, for from the commencement of aerial navigation French engineers had maintained an unquestionable superiority in the construction and perfection of that kind of machine.
But it took him several minutes to find the place on his aerial navigation chart.
All about me were moored ships of American Imperial Airways, the Versailles Line, Royal Austro-Prussian Aerial Navigation Company, Imperial Russian Airship Company, Air Japan, Royal Italian Air Lines and many smaller lines, but the Loch Etive, it seemed to me, was the finest.
At one side he was flanked by Galliard, Master at Aerial Navigation, and on the other by his valet.
Later, under scornful grilling by the comandante, Jesus Bernal admitted that no, he'd never studied aerial navigation at Dartmouth.
Tavia's knowledge of aerial navigation made the task of instructing her simple indeed.
Let's say the Navy finds out, as they did, that the Ger-mans had established a weather station and aerial navigation fa-cilities in Greenland.
Lets say the Navy finds out, as they did, that the Germans had established a weather station and aerial navigation facilities in Greenland.
My plant, services, and all my improvements have always been at the disposal of the officials and ever since the outbreak of the European conflict, I have been working at a sacrifice on several inventions of mine relating to aerial navigation, ship propulsion and wireless transmission, which are of the greatest importance to the country.
Then, dropping to just above the city's tallest buildings, Lisa unobtrusively began Jessy's first lessons in aerial navigation.
While his steps were progressing he prepared a landing field in the old enchanted region which at that time looked like a plain of crushed flintstone, and he studied the wind direction, the geography of the coastal region, and the best routes for aerial navigation, without knowing that his diligence, so similar to that of Mr.