navigation

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.

• IPA^(key): /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)

1. (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

2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
   • 1829, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, [Broadside advertisement, posted bill]:

     CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. Notice is hereby given, that this CANAL is NOW OPEN FOR NAVIGATION. The Locks are 100 feet in length, by 22 feet in width, and the Canal can be navigated by Vessels within those dimensions, and drawing 7 feet of water. The rates of Toll have been fixed so low, as to make this the CHEAPEST as well as the most EXPEDITIOUS and Safe channel of communication, between the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware. Horses for towing vessels may be hired at reasonable prices at each end of the Canal. ☞ Any information in relation to the Canal, rates of Toll, &c. may be had, on application at the Company's Office, No. 44 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. ROBERT M. LEWIS, President; H. D. GILPIN, Secretary. Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company.

3. (countable) A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.

   the Schuylkill Navigation

4. (uncountable) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
5. (uncountable) The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.

• → Hungarian: navigáció
• → Japanese: ナビゲーション (nabigēshon)
• → Korean: 내비게이션 (naebigeisyeon)

From Middle French navigation, from Old French [Term?], from Latin nāvigātiōnem (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). By surface analysis, naviguer +‎ -tion.

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navigation f (plural navigations)

1. navigation

• naviguer

• → Romanian: navigație
• → Turkish: navigasyon

• “navigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Latin nāvigātiō, attested from 1680.^[1]

navigation c (uncountable)

1. navigation