navigation
See also: Navigation
English
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)
- (uncountable) 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
- (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
- (countable) A canal.
- (uncountable) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software
Derived terms
- air navigation
- astronavigation
- breadcrumb navigation
- celestial navigation
- circumnavigation
- freedom of navigation
- grid navigation
- head of navigation
- hyperbolic navigation
- hyperbolic navigation system
- inertial navigation
- inland navigation
- internal navigation
- mystery meat navigation
- navigational
- navigation bar
- navigation channel
- navigation laws
- navigation light
- navigation mesh
- neuronavigation
- proportional navigation
- radio navigation
- radionavigation
- safe navigation operator
- satellite navigation
- satellite navigation system
- slack-water navigation
- space navigation
- turn-by-turn navigation
Translations
theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship
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traffic or travel by vessel
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canal — see canal
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nāvigātiōnem (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). By surface analysis, naviguer + -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.vi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: navigație
- → Turkish: navigasyon
Further reading
- “navigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of navigation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | navigation | navigationen | — | — |
| Genitive | navigations | navigationens | — | — |
References
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