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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Navigation \Nav'i*ga"tion\, noun [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 airplanes or ballons; aviation; a["e]ronautic.
{Inland navigation}, {Internal navigation}, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "navigation": VAR, aim, astronavigation, automatic electronic navigation, azimuth, bearing, bent, boating, canoeing, cartography, celestial navigation, chorography, circumnavigation, coasting, consolan, course, cruising, current, direction, direction line, drift, electronic navigation, geodesy, geodetic satellite, geography, gunkholing, heading, helmsmanship, inclination, lay, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, loran, motorboating, navar, navigability, navigating, omnidirectional range, omnirange, orbiting geophysical observatory, orientation, passage-making, periplus, pilotage, piloting, point, quarter, radar, radio navigation, range, rowing, run, sailing, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, seamanship, set, shoran, steaming, steerage, steering, surveying, tacan, teleran, tendency, tenor, topography, track, travel by water, trend, visual-aural range, voyaging, water travel, way, yachting
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