Hypertext Webster Gateway: "navigation"

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) 1.7 (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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