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What does navigation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word navigation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.
  2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
  3. (countable) A canal.
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Studying for his student pilot licence, he got his first lessons in meteorology, navigation, and airmanship.
Student pilots learn aerobatics, formation, night and instrument flying and cross-country navigation.
The Pentagon plans to use them to improve the aim of missiles and provide better navigation for warplanes and ground troops.
They had no perceptible impact on German opinion, though the leaflet raids gave aircrew some essential training in night navigation.
Lavanha also studied instruments used in navigation, constructing astrolabes, quadrants and compasses.
Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.

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