Navigation n. : The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

Navigation n. : 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.

Navigation n. : The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

Navigation n. : Ships in general.

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Taxonomy
latitude, chronometer, GPS, longitude, marine chronometer, navigation system, dead reckoning, horizon, Passage planning, arc, bearings, plot, vessel, Celestial navigation, lines of position, measure, speed, radar.

Defination from the web:
navigation involves reducing celestial measurements to lines of position using tables, spherical trigonometry, and almanacs. ... Radio navigation uses radio waves to determine position by either radio direction finding systems or hyperbolic systems, such as Decca, Omega and ...