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# circumnavigation

«circumnavigation» in Mova's school dictionary: **A journey all the way around something, especially around…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a circumnavigation, circumnavigations)

### meaning for a pupil

A journey all the way around something, especially around the world by sea or air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it describes the voyages of Magellan and Elcano (1519–1522) and Francis Drake (1577–1580). In geography and maths, the distance of a circumnavigation of the Earth around the equator is about 40,000 km. Phrases: "the first circumnavigation", "circumnavigation of the globe".

### examples

- The first circumnavigation of the globe took three years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#x1)
- Francis Drake completed a circumnavigation in 1580. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#x2)
- Her solo circumnavigation took 72 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#x3)
- A circumnavigation of the island takes a day by boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#x4)
- Only 18 of Magellan's sailors survived the circumnavigation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/#x5)

### note

Noun of "circumnavigate". In maths, the length of a circumnavigation of the Earth at the equator is about 40,000 km, its circumference.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «circumnavigation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/circumnavigation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.