navigation

Noun

1. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
   • Synonyms
     • pilotage
     • piloting
   • Less specific
     • steering
     • guidance
     • direction
   • More specific
     • instrument flying
     • celestial navigation
     • astronavigation
     • dead reckoning
   • Related
     • navigate
     • pilot
     • fly
     • aviate
     • pilot
     • navigate
     • pilot
     • fly
     • aviate
     • pilot
     • navigational
     • navigate
     • pilot
   • Member of topics
     • bear down on
     • bear down upon
     • luff
     • point
     • weather
     • boat
     • steamer
     • steam
     • yacht
     • sail
     • beat
     • scud
     • rack
     • outpoint
     • tack
     • wear round
     • wear ship
     • ferry
     • ferry
     • ferry
     • raft
     • barge
2. ship traffic; “the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts”
   • Less specific
     • transportation
     • shipping
     • transport
   • Related
     • navigational
     • voyage
     • sail
     • navigate
3. the work of a sailor
   • Synonyms
     • seafaring
     • sailing
   • Less specific
     • employment
     • work
   • More specific
     • cabotage
   • Parts
     • steering
     • steerage
   • Related
     • navigational
   • Member of topics
     • close-hauled
     • fore
     • aweigh
     • atrip
     • rigged
     • unrigged
     • fore-and-aft
     • close to the wind
     • leg
     • tack
     • tacking
     • accommodation ladder
     • becket
     • bilge well
     • bitter end
     • chip
     • deadeye
     • escutcheon
     • Jacob's ladder
     • jack ladder
     • pilot ladder
     • lanyard
     • laniard
     • lead line
     • sounding line
     • luff
     • overhead
     • ratline
     • ratlin
     • rudder
     • sea ladder
     • sea steps
     • sheet
     • tack
     • mainsheet
     • weather sheet
     • shroud
     • spun yarn
     • stay
     • sternpost
     • stokehold
     • stokehole
     • fireroom
     • towline
     • towrope
     • towing line
     • towing rope
     • capsizing
     • beam-ends
     • bell
     • ship's bell
     • steerageway
     • stand out
     • starboard

• navigation - LookUp noun

1. Aviation the process or activity of accurately ascertaining one's position and planning and following a route Columbus corrected his westward course by celestial navigation

2. Nautical the passage of ships transporter bridges to span rivers without hindering navigation

Canals dialect a navigable inland waterway, especially a canal most of the navigation from Wormley to Tottenham was frozen

1. Computing the action of moving around a website, the internet, etc.

Origin

early 16th century (denoting travel on water): from French , or from Latin navigatio(n- ), from the verb navigare (see navigate )

Thesaurus

Noun

1. the navigation of the ship

Similar Words: steering piloting pilotage sailing guiding directing guidance manoeuvring

1. Cooper learned the skills of navigation

Similar Words: helmsmanship steersmanship seamanship map-reading chart-reading wayfinding