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Navigation : (noun)
1: the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn:
pilotage, piloting]
2: ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as
soon as the ice melts"
3: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, sailing]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
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.
3. Ships in general. [Poetic] --Shak.
A["e]rial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating
in the air, as by means of ballons; a["e]ronautic.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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NAVIGATION. The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships or
other vessels; the art of ascertaining the geographical position of a ship,
and directing her course.
2. It is not within the plan of this work to copy the acts of congress
relating to navigation, or even an abstract of them. The reader is referred
to Story's L. U. S. Index, h.t.; Gordon's Dic. art. 2905, et seq.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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