navigation

nav-i-ga-tion · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    The process or activity of finding the way to a place or directing the course of a vehicle.

  2. 2.

    The movement through or around a website, application, or document.

  3. 3.

    The science of planning and directing the course of ships, aircraft, or spacecraft.

Forms

plural: navigations

Related words

See also: navigate, navigator, voyage
Synonyms: guidance, piloting, steering

Etymology

From Latin navigatio, from navigare ("to sail"), from navis ("ship") + agere ("to drive").