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  1. noun The theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship or aircraft.
  2. noun Travel or traffic by vessels, especially commercial shipping.

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  • The channel in a short distance became so shallow that our navigation was at an end, being merely a sheet of soft mud, with a few inches of water, and sometimes none at all, forming the low water shore of the lake. —  The Life of Kit Carson
  • That did seem like the best place to land, as their navigation was a bit unsteady and a clear spot was best. —  Faun ; Games
  • The tide it seems runs extremely rapid among those islands, and the navigation is thereby rendered very dangerous and uncertain. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • Also, maybe I'm getting old and losing my sight, but the 6 pt, throwback monochrome-screen font in the navigation is a tough read. —  Adrants
  • Webraska navigation is a hybrid turn by turn naviagation software which both works with off-board and on-board map data. —  TreoCentral
 

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  1. = French navigation = Spanish navegacion = Portuguese navegação = Italian navigazione, navicazione, from Latin navigatio (n-), a sailing, a passing over in a ship, from navigare, sail: see navigate.
 

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/nævɪˈgeɪʃən/
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