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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["e]rial navigation}, the act or art of sailing or floating
in the air, as by means of ballons; a["e]ronautic.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
navigation
n 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}]
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