NAVIGATION


Meaning of NAVIGATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

navigational/navigation aids (= that help you find the way you need to go when you are travelling from one place to another )

navigational aids such as radar

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

system

Draper was a pioneer in the development of inertial navigation systems .

Their hand-held satellite navigation systems told them their exact position to within 15 metres.

The navigation system employs Global Positioning System satellites and regional map software to help guide drivers to unfamiliar addresses.

But Renault wants the system built-in, ready for traffic navigation systems.

If I were a Brown lackey, I would have applauded his idea of putting global-positioning navigation systems on Muni buses.

Possibly the most fascinating thing about the rover, however, was its on-board navigation system .

The rover's navigation system helped with this.

■ VERB

use

I searched the horizon but could not see the hill I used for navigation .

Navy and Marine planes, using navigation satellites, can strike targets in all kinds of weather.

The cross check of the navigation instrument is included according to which navigation or approach facilities are being used .

While the sub was on the seafloor, I learned to track her from the surface using the acoustic navigation instruments.

Those they use for navigation are so high-pitched that they are ultrasonic, far beyond the range of any human ear.

Finally, preservation of correct bearing may be important, for example if the map is to be used for navigation .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an electronic navigation system

The channel is now open to navigation .

The voyage was an achievement of navigation and courage.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the Flicker is used by freighters with full-automatic Intelloid navigation .

Frames can be useful for maintaining a navigation bar, but all permanent frames consume screen real estate.

In Medieval times rivers were used for water supply and to power mills as well as for navigation .

In the navigation room Colonel Bowers pored over his flight-plan and a sandwich lunch.

Precision Products makes navigation and guidance systems for military and space purposes.

The fecundity of adult Jerichos must be legend, the navigation abilities of the larvae extraordinary.

There's a medical officer, a navigation officer, a communications officer.

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