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nav⋅i⋅ga⋅tion
[nav-i-gey-shuh
n] 
–noun
| 1. | the act or process of navigating. |
| 2. | the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile. |
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Navigation
Nav`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. navigatio: cf. F. navigation.]1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. 2. (a) 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. (b) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship. 3. Ships in general. [Poetic] --Shak. A["e]rial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of ballons; a["e]ronautic. Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : navigation
Spanish:
navegación,
German:
die Nautik,
Japanese:
航行
navigation
1533, from L. navigationem (nom. navigatio), from navigatus, pp. of navigare "to sail, sail over, go by sea, steer a ship," from navis "ship" (see naval) + root of agere "to drive" (see act). Navigable is attested from 1527; navigate is a back-formation, first attested 1588; later extended to balloons (1784) and aircraft.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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