navigation
Pronunciation: /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/
The English word “navigation” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
- 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 act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
- The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.
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