navigation

noun

nav·i·ga·tion | \ ˌna-və-ˈgā-shən

Definition of navigation

1 : the act or practice of navigating

2 : the science of getting ships, aircraft, or spacecraft from place to place especially : the method of determining position, course, and distance traveled

3 : ship traffic or commerce

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Examples of navigation in a Sentence

If you're going to be a good sailor you need to master navigation. I don't mind driving if you're willing to do the navigation. Our new car has an onboard navigation system. Navigation becomes more difficult further upriver. There are back and forward buttons for easier browser navigation.

Recent Examples on the Web The navigation of the website was smooth and straightforward. — Dallas News, "Student journalists win 30th annual Dallas Morning News awards for pandemic, social justice reporting," 4 May 2021 The main navigation of the site continued to mirror the newspaper; plus, Sports and Personal Journal. — WSJ, "WSJ.com Turns 25," 29 Apr. 2021 True navigation is the ability to reach a distant destination without the aid of landmarks. — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, "Why Animals Don’t Get Lost," 29 Mar. 2021 But getting there has never been easy, especially the navigation through Mexico’s lawlessness. — New York Times, "A Violent End to a Desperate Dream Leaves a Guatemalan Town Grieving," 21 Mar. 2021 Just go to Google Maps, enter your destination on the map and click the button for directions and then click Start to begin the navigation. — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, "Giving mom some peace of mind," 22 Apr. 2021 Ingenuity only collected black-and-white images with its navigation camera during the first flight. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "The Ingenuity helicopter is attempting to take color images of Mars on its second, riskier flight," 22 Apr. 2021 In the late 1800s, people started to build a network of levees along the river’s southern reaches to reduce flooding and ease navigation. — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, "Rerouting the Mississippi River could build new land—and save a retreating coast," 22 Apr. 2021 The touch-sensitive navigation ends up being far too fiddly for just picking up and clicking around. — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, "The Best TV And Movie Streamers: Apple TV vs Roku vs Amazon Fire TV vs TiVo Stream," 21 Apr. 2021

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