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Definition of Navigation
1. Noun. The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place.
Generic synonyms: Direction, Guidance, Steering
Specialized synonyms: Instrument Flying, Astronavigation, Celestial Navigation, Dead Reckoning
Examples of category: Bear Down On, Bear Down Upon, Luff, Point, Weather, Boat, Steam, Steamer, Yacht, Sail, Beat, Rack, Scud, Outpoint, Tack, Wear Round, Wear Ship, Ferry, Ferry, Ferry, Raft, Barge
Derivative terms: Navigate, Navigational, Pilot, Pilot, Pilot, Pilot
2. Noun. Ship traffic. "The channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts"
3. Noun. The work of a sailor.
Examples of category: Leg, Tack, Tacking, Accommodation Ladder, Becket, Bilge Well, Bitter End, Chip, Deadeye, Escutcheon, Jack Ladder, Jacob's Ladder, Pilot Ladder, Laniard, Lanyard, Lead Line, Sounding Line, Luff, Overhead, Ratlin, Ratline, Rudder, Sea Ladder, Sea Steps, Mainsheet, Sheet, Shroud, Tack, Weather Sheet, Spun Yarn, Stay, Sternpost, Fireroom, Stokehold, Stokehole, Towing Line, Towing Rope, Towline, Towrope, Capsizing, Beam-ends, Bell, Ship's Bell, Steerageway, Stand Out, Starboard, Close-hauled, Fore, Atrip, Aweigh, Rigged, Unrigged, Fore-and-aft, Close To The Wind
Specialized synonyms: Cabotage
Generic synonyms: Employment, Work
Terms within: Steerage, Steering
Derivative terms: Navigational
Definition of Navigation
1. n. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
Definition of Navigation
1. Noun. The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship ¹
2. Noun. Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping ¹
3. Noun. A canal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Navigation
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Medical Definition of Navigation
1. 1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. 2. 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. 3. Ships in general. Aerial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of ballons; aeronautic. Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc. Origin: L. Navigatio: cf. F. Navigation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)