Navigation

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

2. 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.

3. The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

4. Ships in general. [Poetic] Shak. Aërial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of ballons; aëronautic. -- Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.