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# navigation

«navigation» in Mova's school dictionary: **The skill or process of finding your way or planning a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (navigation — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The skill or process of finding your way or planning a route, especially at sea or in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#m1)

2) The steering of a ship or plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#m2)

3) (computing) The way you move around a website or app; its menus and links. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#m3)

4) A system that shows the way, such as a sat nav. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons, navigation uses maps, compasses, the stars and GPS. In everyday life, cars and phones have navigation apps (sat nav). In computing, a «navigation bar» is a website's menu. Phrases: sat nav, navigation system, navigation bar, satellite navigation.

### examples

- Navigation was hard for early explorers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x1)
- Our car has a navigation system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x2)
- Birds use the Earth's magnetism for navigation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x3)
- The website has easy navigation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x4)
- We learned map and compass navigation on camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x5)
- The lighthouse helps with navigation at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x6)
- Turn on the navigation app before we leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x7)
- They were at last blown on shore, for navigation was primitive in those days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigation/#x8)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: navigate. «Sat nav» (UK) = satellite navigation device. Related: navigator.

### Trees and pragmatics

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