Navigation Definition

năvĭ-gāshən
noun
The act or practice of navigating.
Webster's New World
The science of locating the position and plotting the course of ships and aircraft.
Webster's New World
Traffic by ship.
Webster's New World
Navigation is defined as the act or process of planning out a route or directing the travels of a boat, ship, car, person etc..
When a GPS device plans out your route and tells you where to go and when to turn, this is an example of GPS navigation.
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(countable) A canal.

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Origin of Navigation

  • From Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”).

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Navigation Sentence Examples

  • The soldier touched his thumb to the navigation control board.

  • The rugged Spanish coast is indented by many fjord-like inlets, especially in the west, where navigation is sometimes difficult and dangerous; but its rivers are comparatively unimportant.

  • But my car is not a CD player, GPS navigation system, or air conditioner.

  • Two lines of steamers, an English and a Turkish, furnish an inadequate service between Basra and Bagdad, but there is no steam navigation on the river above the latter city.

  • Above this place the navigation is interrupted by rapids.

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