Navigability(n.) The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.
Navigable(a.) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
Navigate(v. i.) To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
Navigate(v. t.) To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
Navigate(v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.
Navigated(imp. & p. p.) of Navigate
Navigating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Navigate
Navigation(n.) The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
Navigation(n.) 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.
Navigation(n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.
Navigation(n.) Ships in general.
Navigator(n.) One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.
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