navigation
The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
Noun 4 meanings
The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
“An ocean-going yachtsman must be competent at night navigation”
Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
“the Schuylkill Navigation”
The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.
NAVIGATION at a glance
NAVIGATION has 10 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (N 1 + A 1 + V 4 + I 1 + G 2 + A 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 18 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,706 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with navigation
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