navigation
The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
Example
“An ocean-going yachtsman must be competent at night navigation”
Other meanings
Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
Related words
- air navigation
- freedom of navigation
- head of navigation
- hyperbolic navigation system
- mystery meat navigation
- navigation channel
- navigation mesh
- radio navigation
- safe navigation operator
- satellite navigation system
- space navigation
- turn-by-turn navigation
Word history
From Latin "nāvigātiōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “navigation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.