'Navigation' definitions:
Definition of 'navigation'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Navigation'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ships in general. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Aerial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation; aeronautic.
- Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'navigation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aim,
- astronavigation,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- azimuth,
- bearing,
- bent,
- boating,
- canoeing,
- cartography,
- celestial navigation,
- chorography,
- circumnavigation,
- coasting,
- consolan,
- course,
- cruising,
- current,
- direction,
- direction line,
- drift,
- electronic navigation,
- geodesy,
- geodetic satellite,
- geography,
- gunkholing,
- heading,
- helmsmanship,
- inclination,
- lay,
- lie,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- loran,
- motorboating,
- navar,
- navigability,
- navigating,
- omnidirectional range,
- omnirange,
- orbiting geophysical observatory,
- orientation,
- passage-making,
- periplus,
- pilotage,
- piloting,
- point,
- quarter,
- radar,
- radio navigation,
- range,
- rowing,
- run,
- sailing,
- sculling,
- sea travel,
- seafaring,
- seamanship,
- set,
- shoran,
- steaming,
- steerage,
- steering,
- surveying,
- tacan,
- teleran,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- topography,
- track,
- travel by water,
- trend,
- VAR,
- visual-aural range,
- voyaging,
- water travel,
- way,
- yachting
Words containing 'Navigation'
- Navigability,
- Navigable,
- Navigableness,
- Navigably,
- Navigate,
- Navigated,
- Navigating,
- Navigator,
- navigational,
- Aerial navigation,
- Inland navigation,
- Internal navigation,
- celestial navigation,
- inertial navigation,
- navigation light,
- navigational chart,
- navigational instrument,
- navigational system,
- inertial navigation system,
- Slack-water navigation