navigation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   ship traffic

   the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts

2. 2
   noun

   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

3. 3
   noun

   Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

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

   the Schuylkill Navigation

5. 5
   noun

   the work of a sailor

6. 6
   noun

   the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

7. 7
   noun

   The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.

8. 8
   noun

   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 nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.