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nav⋅i⋅ga⋅tion

[nav-i-gey-shuhn]
–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.

Origin:
1520–30; < L nāvigātiōn- (s. of nāvigātiō) a voyage. See navigate, -ion


nav⋅i⋅ga⋅tion⋅al, adjective
nav·i·ga·tion   (nāv'ĭ-gā'shən)   
n.  
  1. The theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship or aircraft.
  2. Travel or traffic by vessels, especially commercial shipping.
nav'i·ga'tion·al adj., nav'i·ga'tion·al·ly adv.

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.
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.
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