Navigation
Nav`i`ga´tion
NAVIGATION. The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships or
other vessels; the art of ascertaining the geographical position of a ship,
and directing her course.
2. It is not within the plan of this work to copy the acts of congress
relating to navigation, or even an abstract of them. The reader is referred
to Story's L. U. S. Index, h.t.; Gordon's Dic. art. 2905, et seq.
VAR,
aim,
astronavigation,
automatic electronic navigation,
azimuth,
bearing,
bent,
boating,
canoeing,
cartography,
celestial navigation,
chorography,
circumnavigation,
coasting,
consolan,
course,
cruising,
current,
direction,
direction line,
drift,
electronic navigation,
geodesy,
geodetic satellite,
geography,
gunkholing,
heading,
helmsmanship,
inclination,
lay,
lie,
line,
line of direction,
line of march,
loran,
motorboating,
navar,
navigability,
navigating,
omnidirectional range,
omnirange,
orbiting geophysical observatory,
orientation,
passage-making,
periplus,
pilotage,
piloting,
point,
quarter,
radar,
radio navigation,
range,
rowing,
run,
sailing,
sculling,
sea travel,
seafaring,
seamanship,
set,
shoran,
steaming,
steerage,
steering,
surveying,
tacan,
teleran,
tendency,
tenor,
topography,
track,
travel by water,
trend,
visual-aural range,
voyaging,
water travel,
way,
yachting
navigation - the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place