navigation.
The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
Meaning & usage
The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
An ocean-going yachtsman must be competent at night navigation
Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
the Schuylkill Navigation
The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.
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