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• Navigation — ist die „Steuermannskunst“ zu Wasser (Nautik), zu Land und in der Luft. Ihr Ziel ist, das Fahr bzw. Flugzeug sicher zum gewünschten Zielpunkt zu steuern. Dem Steuern gehen zwei geometrische Aufgaben voraus: das Feststellen der momentanen Position …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Navigation (Schifffahrt) — Navigation ist die Steuermannskunst zu Wasser (Nautik), zu Land, in der Luft und im Weltraum. Allgemeiner bezeichnet sie das sich Zurechtfinden in einem topografischen Raum, um einen gewünschten Ort zu erreichen. Quadrant des Hevelius, um 1644… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• NAVIGATION (HISTOIRE DE LA) — L’histoire de la navigation, essentiellement liée à l’histoire de la civilisation et aux découvertes géographiques, retrace les étapes de la conquête de la mer par l’homme et en explique les raisons: l’attrait de l’aventure et le goût du risque,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• navigation — navigational, adj. /nav i gay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of navigating. 2. the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile. [1520 30; < L navigation (s. of navigatio) a voyage.… …   Universalium

• Navigation — This article is about determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the earth. For other uses, see Navigation (disambiguation). Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. Navigation is the… …   Wikipedia

• Board of Longitude — The Board of Longitude was the popular name for the Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea. It was a British Government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended to encourage innovators to solve the problem of …   Wikipedia

• Navigation light — The winglet and red navigation light on the port (left) wing of a South African Airways Boeing 747 400 aircraft A navigation light is a colored source of illumination on an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel, used to signal a craft s… …   Wikipedia

• Navigation (disambiguation) — For navigational boxes, see Wikipedia:Navigation templates Navigation is the theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship, aircraft, or spaceship (American Heritage Dictionary). Navigation may also refer to: A …   Wikipedia

• Navigation system — A navigation system is a (usually electronic) system that aids is navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board a vehicle or vessel, or they may be located elsewhere and communicate via radio or other signals with a vehicle or vessel,… …   Wikipedia

• navigation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Travel on water Nouns 1. navigation; celestial navigation, dead reckoning; circumnavigation; pilotage, steerage; seamanship; navigability. 2. (active boating) boating, yachting, yacht racing, sailing,… …   English dictionary for students

• Navigation Acts —    A series of mercantilist provisions designed to protect English shipping, as well as to secure huge profits at the cost of colonies. English customs practices aimed at the Dutch in 1651 had banned foreign vessels from shipping goods from non… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914