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Navigation

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.

Ships in general.

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Navigation Quotations

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
Ron Kind

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
Todd Gitlin

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.
Mike Davidson

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Clyde Tombaugh

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Thor Heyerdahl

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
John H. Reagan

The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea.
John M. McHugh

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David C. McCullough

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid

Navigation Translations

navigation in Dutch is navigatie
navigation in French is navigation
navigation in German is Navigation, Schiffahrt
navigation in Latin is navigatio

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