English Explanatory Dictionary

navigation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
  2. Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
  3. A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
  4. The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
  5. The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.

Pronunciation

/nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/ en-us-navigation.ogg

Word forms

navigation navigations

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.

Derived words

aeronavigation air navigation astronavigation avigation celestial navigation circumnavigation cybernavigation freedom of navigation geonavigation grid navigation head of navigation hyperbolic navigation hyperbolic navigation system hypernavigation inertial navigation inertial navigation system inertial navigation unit inland navigation internal navigation metanavigation misnavigation mystery meat navigation navigational navigation bar navigation channel navigation laws navigation light navigation mesh neuronavigation nonnavigation proportional navigation radionavigation radio navigation renavigation safe navigation operator satellite navigation satellite navigation system satnav slack-water navigation soft navigation space navigation subnavigation TACAN taxonavigation terrestrial navigation turn-by-turn navigation
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