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English Dictionary: navigation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
navigation
n
  1. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
    Synonym(s): navigation, pilotage, piloting
  2. ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts"
  3. the work of a sailor
    Synonym(s): seafaring, navigation, sailing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[89]rial navigation}, the act or art of sailing or floating
            in the air, as by means of ballons; a[89]ronautic.
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