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nav·i·ga·tion    Audio Help   [nav-i-gey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–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
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nav·i·ga·tion    Audio Help   (nāv'ĭ-gā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
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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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navigation

noun
1. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place 
2. ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" 
3. the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring

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ˌnaviˈgation noun
the art or skill of navigating
Arabic: مِلاحَه
Chinese (Simplified): 航行
Chinese (Traditional): 航行
Czech: navigace, navigační umění
Danish: navigation
Dutch: navigatie
Estonian: navigatsioon
Finnish: merenkulkutaito
French: navigation
German: die Nautik
Greek: ναυσιπλοΐα
Hungarian: hajózás
Icelandic: siglingafræði
Indonesian: navigasi
Italian: navigazione
Japanese: 航行
Korean: 항해술, 항해학
Latvian: navigācija; kuģniecība
Lithuanian: navigacija, laivyba, laivavedyba
Norwegian: navigering, navigasjon
Polish: nawigacja
Portuguese (Brazil): navegação
Portuguese (Portugal): navegação
Romanian: navi­gaţie
Russian: управление; навигация
Slovak: navigácia
Slovenian: plovstvo, navigacija
Spanish: navegación
Swedish: navigation, navigering
Turkish: seyrüsefer, seyretme
See also: navigable, navigator, navigate

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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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