Category:Navigation

Nav`i*ga"tion, n. Etym: [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. Aërial navigation, the act or art Of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of ballons; Aëronautic. -- inland navigation, internal navigation, navigation on rivers, Inland lakes, etc.