Navigation
Navigation , noun
[Latin navigatio: compare French 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] — Shakespeare
Collocations (2)
Aerial navigation , the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation; aeronautic.
Inland navigation or Internal navigation , navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.