navigation

Meaning

Noun

• The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.
• Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
• A canal.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō, from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō.
• Morphologically navigate + -ion