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Navigation synonyms

năv'ĭ-gā'shən
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seamanship
Skill in operating, navigating, or handling a ship
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  1. Skill in operating, navigating, or handling a ship
piloting
The occupation or service of a pilot.
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  1. The occupation or service of a pilot.
  2. The form of navigation in which position is determined by relation to external reference points
  3. The directing of a ship's movements near land, using landmarks, buoys, soundings, etc.
pilotage
The fee paid to a pilot.
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  1. The fee paid to a pilot.
  2. Aerial navigation by visual identification of landmarks.
  3. Aircraft navigation by observation of ground features and the use of charts and maps
aeronautics
The theory and practice of aircraft navigation
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  1. The theory and practice of aircraft navigation
  2. The science, art, or work of designing, making, and operating aircraft
  3. The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
flying
The action of a person or thing that flies
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  1. The action of a person or thing that flies
  2. Flight in an aircraft or spacecraft.
  3. The piloting or navigation of an aircraft or spacecraft.
sailing
Departure or time of departure from a port.
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  1. Departure or time of departure from a port.
  2. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
  3. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
seafaring
Travel by sea
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  1. Travel by sea
  2. A sailor's calling.
  3. The work, or calling of a sailor.
exploration
The act or an instance of exploring:
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  1. The act or an instance of exploring:
  2. An exploring or being explored
voyaging
Act of travelling or going on a voyage.
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  1. Act of travelling or going on a voyage.
shipping
The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.
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  1. The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.
  2. Ships, esp. commercial ships, collectively, as those belonging to a certain nation or using a certain port
  3. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
steerage
The section of a passenger ship, originally near the rudder, providing the cheapest passenger accommodations.
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  1. The section of a passenger ship, originally near the rudder, providing the cheapest passenger accommodations.
  2. (Historical) A section in some ships, with the poorest accommodations, occupied by the passengers paying the lowest fare
  3. (Countable) The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
boating
(Historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
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  1. (Historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
  2. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat
  3. Rowing, sailing, or cruising
yachting
A physical activity involving boats, be it racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast.
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  1. A physical activity involving boats, be it racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast.
  2. The action, sport, or recreation of sailing in a yacht
coasting
The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
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  1. The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
plane-sailing
(Nautical, proscribed) A technique for navigation using the assumption the Earth is flat.
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  1. (Nautical, proscribed) A technique for navigation using the assumption the Earth is flat.
Find another word for navigation. In this page you can discover 49 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for navigation, like: navigating, seamanship, piloting, pilotage, aeronautics, flying, sailing, seafaring, ocean travel, exploration and voyaging.

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  • The soldier touched his thumb to the navigation control board.

  • The rugged Spanish coast is indented by many fjord-like inlets, especially in the west, where navigation is sometimes difficult and dangerous; but its rivers are comparatively unimportant.

  • But my car is not a CD player, GPS navigation system, or air conditioner.

  • Two lines of steamers, an English and a Turkish, furnish an inadequate service between Basra and Bagdad, but there is no steam navigation on the river above the latter city.

  • Above this place the navigation is interrupted by rapids.

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