navigation

See also: Navigation

English

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)

1. (uncountable) 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

2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
3. (countable) A canal.
4. (uncountable) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.

Derived terms

• aeronavigation
• air navigation
• astronavigation
• avigation
• breadcrumb navigation
• celestial navigation
• circumnavigation
• cybernavigation
• freedom of navigation
• geonavigation
• grid navigation
• head of navigation
• hyperbolic navigation
• hyperbolic navigation system
• hypernavigation
• inertial navigation
• inland navigation
• internal navigation
• metanavigation
• misnavigation
• mystery meat navigation
• navigational
• navigation bar
• navigation channel
• navigation laws
• navigation light
• navigation mesh
• neuronavigation
• nonnavigation
• proportional navigation
• radio navigation
• radionavigation
• renavigation
• safe navigation operator
• satellite navigation
• satellite navigation system
• satnav
• slack-water navigation
• space navigation
• subnavigation
• TACAN
• taxonavigation
• terrestrial navigation
• turn-by-turn navigation

 

Translations

theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship

• Afrikaans: navigasie
• Arabic: مِلَاحَة f (milāḥa)
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: նաւաստութիւն (nawastutʻiwn)

• Belarusian: навіга́цыя f (navihácyja)
• Bengali: ন্যাভিগেইশ্‌ন্ (nêbhigeiś‌n‌)
• Bulgarian: навигация (bg) f (navigacija)
• Catalan: navegació (ca) f, nàutica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導航 / 导航 (zh) (dǎoháng)

• Coptic: ⲕⲉⲙⲧϫⲟⲓ (kemtčoi)
• Czech: navigace (cs) f
• Danish: navigering c
• Dutch: navigatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: navigado
• French: navigation (fr) f
• Galician: navegación (gl) f, náutica f
• German: Navigation (de) f
• Greek: πλοήγηση (el) f (ploḯgisi), ναυσιπλοΐα (el) f (nafsiploḯa) (nautical)
• Hebrew: נִוּוּט (he) m (nivut), נַוָּטוּת (he) f (navatut)
• Hindi: नेविगेशन (nevigeśan)
• Hungarian: navigáció (hu)
• Icelandic: skipstjórn f, siglingafræði f
• Ido: navigo (io)
• Indonesian: navigasi (id)
• Irish: loingseoireacht f
• Italian: nautica (it) f
• Kazakh: навигация (navigasiä)
• Macedonian: навигација f (navigacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: navigering m or f

  Nynorsk: navigering f

• Persian: ناوبری (fa) (nâvbari)
• Polish: nawigacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: navegação (pt) f, náutica (pt) f
• Romanian: navigație (ro) f
• Russian: навига́ция (ru) f (navigácija)
• Spanish: navegación (es) f, náutica (es) f
• Swedish: navigation (sv) c, navigering c
• Turkish: yolbul (tr), navigasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: навіга́ція (uk) f (navihácija)
• West Frisian: navigaasje c

traffic or travel by vessel

• Azerbaijani: dənizçilik
• Bulgarian: корабоплаване (bg) n (koraboplavane), мореплаване (bg) n (moreplavane)
• Catalan: navegació (ca) f
• Danish: skibsfart (da) c, søfart (da) c
• Dutch: scheepvaart (nl) f
• Esperanto: navigado
• Galician: navegación (gl) f
• German: Schifffahrt (de) f
• Indonesian: navigasi (id)
• Irish: loingseoireacht f
• Italian: navigazione (it) f
• Latin: nāvigātiō f
• Macedonian: пловидба f (plovidba)
• Polish: nawigacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: navegação (pt) f
• Romanian: navigație (ro) f
• Russian: пла́вание (ru) n (plávanije), морепла́вание (ru) n (moreplávanije), судохо́дство (ru) n (sudoxódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: moreplovstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: navegación (es) f
• Swedish: sjöfart (sv) c, sjötrafik (sv) c, luftfart (sv) c, lufttrafik c
• Tagalog: paglalayag
• Ukrainian: пла́вання n (plávannja), морепла́вання n (moreplávannja), морепла́вство n (moreplávstvo), суднопла́вство n (sudnoplávstvo)

canal — see canal

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• Kashubian: ^{(please verify)} nawigacëjô

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nāvigātiōnem (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). By surface analysis, naviguer +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

navigation f (plural navigations)

1. navigation

Related terms

• naviguer

Descendants

• → Romanian: navigație
• → Turkish: navigasyon

Further reading

• “navigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin nāvigātiō, attested from 1680.

Noun

navigation c (uncountable)

1. navigation

Declension

Declension of navigation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	navigation	navigations
	definite	navigationen	navigationens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—