Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the motion, movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navig ...
is the theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
Navigation may also refer to:
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Marine navigation
Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art because of the skill that the navigator must have to avoid the dangers of navigation, and it ...
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Land navigation
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Air navigation
The basic principles of air navigation are identical to general navigation, which includes the process of planning, recording, and controlling the movement of a craft from one place to another.
Successful air navigation involves piloting an airc ...
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Ship transport
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by watercraft has been widely used throughout recorded history, as it provi ...
in general
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Web navigation
Web navigation refers to the process of navigating a network of information resources in the World Wide Web, which is organized as hypertext or hypermedia. The user interface that is used to do so is called a web browser.
A central theme in w ...
, browsing and locating information of the World Wide Web
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Navigation system
A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is controlling (for example, on the ship's bridge) or located elsewhere, making use of radio or oth ...
, a system, usually electronic, that aids in navigation
* Navigation, a man-made watercourse similar to a
canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...
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''Navigation'' (album), the 2005 debut album by Radar
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Navigation: The OMD B-Sides'', a 2001 compilation album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
** "Navigation", the title track of this compilation, originally the B-side of 1982 single "
Maid of Orleans"
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''Navigation'' (film), a documentary film directed by Hossein Rajabian
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''Navigation'' (journal), published by the Institute of Navigation
See also
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''Navigational'' (album), an album by Centro-Matic
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"Navigating" (song), a 2024 song by Twenty One Pilots
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Navigator (disambiguation)
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Navigability
A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and calm enough for a water vessel (e.g. boats) to pass safely. Navigability is also referred to in the broader context of a body of water having sufficient under ...
, a body of water that is deep, wide and calm enough for a water vessel to pass safely
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Navigation research
In cognitive psychology, spatial cognition is the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments. It is most about how animals, including humans, behave within space and the knowledge they built aroun ...
, which deals with the fundamental aspects of navigation
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Navigation authority A navigation authority is a company or statutory body which is concerned with the management of a navigable canal or river.
Rights of a navigation authority
Whilst the rights of individual authorities vary, a navigation authority will typically hav ...
, a company or statutory body which is concerned with the management of a navigable canal or river
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Navvy
Navvy, a Clipping (morphology), clipping of navigator (United Kingdom, UK) or navigational engineer (United States, US), is particularly applied to describe the manual Laborer, labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasional ...
, a navigational engineer
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