navigation

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
2. (uncountable, usually) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
3. (countable, usually) A canal.
4. (uncountable, usually) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
5. (uncountable, usually) The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.

Synonyms

sailing

shipping

piloting

pilotage

seafaring

driving

pilotage proper

cruise

seamanship

steering

navigating

removal

riding

aeronautics

shift

traffic

transferral

transportation

travel

traveling

airmanship

migration

transport

navigator’s

ship routing

maritime traffic

nav.

seafarer

boating

conveyance

direction finding

flying

forwarding

marine

movement

moving

navigational

pilot

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Translations

navigation

navigazione

navegación

Navigation

navegação

navigatie

Schifffahrt

navegació

scheepvaart

nautica

zeevaart

ναυτιλία

ملاحة

ναυσιπλοία

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/

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.