Crossword clues for navigator
navigator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navigator \Nav"i*ga`tor\, n. One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "one who navigates," from Latin navigator "sailor," agent noun from navigat-, stem of navigare (see navigation). Meaning "laborer employed in excavating a canal" is 1775, from sense in inland navigation "communication by canals and rivers" (1727).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft 2 a sea explorer 3 a device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile 4 (context obsolete English): a labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy
WordNet
n. the ship's officer in charge of navigation [syn: sailing master]
the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
Wikipedia
A navigator is the person on board a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation. The navigator's primary responsibility is to be aware of ship or aircraft position at all times. Responsibilities include planning the journey, advising the ship's captain or aircraft commander of estimated timing to destinations while en route, and ensuring hazards are avoided. The navigator is in charge of maintaining the aircraft or ship's nautical charts, nautical publications, and navigational equipment, and generally has responsibility for meteorological equipment and communications.
With the advent of GPS, the effort required to accurately determine one's position has decreased by orders of magnitude, so the entire field has experienced a revolutionary transition since the 1990s with traditional navigation tasks being used less frequently.
Navigator (2005) is an aggrotech album by Funker Vogt.
A navigator is an individual responsible for guiding a vehicle to its destination.
Navigator may also refer to:
Navigator is the debut album of Forma Tadre, a German musical project that can best be described as electronic body music but has also been categorized as Industrial or Ambient. The main theme of the album is connected to writer HP Lovecrafts books on the Cthulhu Mythos
Navigator is an album released in 2002 by New Zealand hip-hop artist, Che Fu.
Navigator is book three of four in Stephen Baxter's alternate history and science fiction series Time's Tapestry.
Usage examples of "navigator".
Pain, loss of blood and bouts of unconsciousness started to affect the pilot, but the Stirling was kept flying, with the help first of the navigator and then of the bomb aimer, who had himself been stunned in the dive.
About 1609, Argal discovered a more direct and shorter passage to Virginia, and left the track of the ancient navigators, who had first directed their course southwards to the tropic, sailed westward by means of the trade winds, and then turned northward, till they reached the English settlements.
All the navigators of the austral seas have been able to ascertain, as I myself have done, the permanence of this wind.
How shall the perplexed navigator steer his course when monitors in office accuse him on the one hand of lax precision throughout, and belaud him on the other for careful observance of detail?
In sailing to Virginia, navigators steer through a strait formed by two points, called the Capes, into the bay of Chesapeak, a large inlet that runs three hundred miles into the country from south to north, covered from the Atlantic Ocean by the eastern side of Maryland, and a small portion of Virginia on the same peninsula.
Our navigators and cosmographers have traced the outlines of Atlantis, or the New World, where have been found the crocodile that lives for a thousand years and the quail that has the falling sickness: certain provinces or domains there we have named Norumbega, Nova Francia and Mocosa, in which latter part of the world has been found the horse that weeps and sighs like a man.
My research has filled me with respect for the logical thinking, high science, deep psychological insights, and vast cosmographical knowledge of the ancient geniuses who composed those myths, and who, I am now fully persuaded, descended from the same lost civilization that produced the map-makers, pyramid builders, navigators, astronomers and earth-measurers whose fingerprints we have been following across the continents and oceans of the earth.
A Centaurian navigator had gazed at this screen, running from his own devils, unsuccessfully, for the ship from which Guz had personally pried the unit had been a casualty.
Reuben Hawkshaw knew of no other plan, but as far as these went he was an excellent navigator, and was seldom many miles out in making a landfall.
The incapacitated pilot scored a shrewd blow with that suggestion, for Akin Davies the navigator had remustered from observer and knew almost as much as Jammy about bombsights, drift, markers and selector switches.
Thalia, Captain Poulandres, Baltha, Kau, most of the rads, most of the reavers, nearly all of the Manitou crew, including the young navigator who had helped Maia and her twin find their way through the dazzling complexity of the world-wall.
The computer operator and navigator, Elspeth Keck, was younger and too plump.
Lieutenant Lemke David was aboard that shuttle, performing as navigator.
At last a northwest wind drove it off the shore, and on the second clear day the little steamer Moonbeam, engaged in the porgy fishery, came up to the cove with a small sloop in tow and three dejected, exhausted, and thoroughly disgusted navigators on board.
The great mat sail was set up, and at length the brave navigator Rata, with the parents of Nganaoa and the entire party, started once more.