navigation

The theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship or aircraft.

Travel or traffic by vessels, especially commercial shipping.

The act of navigating; the act of moving on water in ships or other vessels; sailing: as, the navigation of the northern seas; also, by extension, the act of “sailing” through the air in a balloon (see aërial navigation, below).

The science or art of directing the course of vessels as they sail from one part of the world to another.

Ships in general; shipping.

An artificial waterway, or a part of a natural waterway that has been made navigable; a canal. Also navvy. See navvy.

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

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.

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