navigation
the act or process of navigating.
the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile.
Computers.
the act or process of moving from one part of a website, software program, document, etc., to another part, especially by using links or menus.
the design and placement of user interface elements like links and menus that allow a user to move from one part of a website, software program, document, etc., to another part.
Origin of navigation
1Other words from navigation
- nav·i·ga·tion·al, adjective
- mis·nav·i·ga·tion, noun
- non·nav·i·ga·tion, noun
- re·nav·i·ga·tion, noun
Words Nearby navigation
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How to use navigation in a sentence
If you don’t already have one, add a search box to your navigation menu.
How to drive digital innovation necessary during the pandemic | Nick Chasinov | September 16, 2020 | Search Engine WatchAnticipating your iPhone, the Gen-Ryu also sports voice navigation and hands-free cellphone function.
22 of the weirdest concept motorcycles ever made | By John Burns/Cycle World | September 10, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn 1Password, these other pieces of data are available via the navigation pane in the desktop apps and the web interface.
Speaking of real estate … the city purchased an indoor skydiving facility several years ago with the plan of turning it into a “housing navigation center” for the homeless.
Morning Report: Hotel Workers Want Their Jobs Back | Voice of San Diego | September 8, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThen you get to the Calcasieu River and that navigation channel—and then to Calcasieu Lake, which is also super shallow—which amplify the surge as they form an artery straight up to Lake Charles.
Why is Hurricane Laura so frightening? Two words: storm surge | cleaf2013 | August 26, 2020 | Fortune
And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe flight management computers include the navigation data programmed for every flight.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014 | Clive Irving | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFinally, traveling at speeds of up to 3.6 miles per second makes guidance, navigation, and control tricky problems.
He envisions an Asia “where,” as he told the Australian parliament, “commerce and freedom of navigation are not impeded.”
Within the ICAO is the Air navigation Commission, charged with “the safety and efficiency of international civil aviation.”
It’s Scandalous to Keep Using Black Boxes in Airplanes Like MH370 | Clive Irving | April 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn his return he again doubled cape Good Hope, which had long been regarded as the ne plus ultra of navigation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe Steam navigation Company built them, and many others of different sizes.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe variation in this interval is almost too trifling to be noticed for the purposes of common navigation.
Lauritz Seehus was promoted to be mate; in the winter he had been up to Bergen, and had passed in navigation.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandHe had access to the ocean only in a latitude in which navigation is, during a great part of every year, perilous and difficult.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for navigation
/ (ˌnævɪˈɡeɪʃən) /
the skill or process of plotting a route and directing a ship, aircraft, etc, along it
the act or practice of navigating: dredging made navigation of the river possible
US rare ship traffic; shipping
Midland English dialect an inland waterway; canal
Derived forms of navigation
- navigational, adjective
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