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'''Navigation''' is the science, engineering discipline, and art of determining one's position, and using that information to plan journeys to new destinations. While the core information is based on geography and mathematics, it is a practical engineering discipline. [[Marine navigation]], for example, has very different characteristics than [[land navigation]] in a [[forest]]. A perfectly plotted boat course will not take one far through a large tree.
'''Navigation''' has been defined by the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' as the process or activity of navigating by planning and directing the route or course of a vessel such as a ship or aircraft.<ref>OED, 2004, page 955.</ref> Plotting the course is achieved by the use of instruments or maps. Navigation also refers to the passage of shipping along its chosen course. In Great Britain, the term is sometimes nominally applied to a [[canal]] or other navigable inland waterway.
 
Methods of navigation include:
 
* '''Dead reckoning'''. The process of calculating the vessel's current position by reference to an already determined position (known as a "fix") and taking due account of speed, heading (i.e., direction/course), and time elapsed since leaving the fix.
* '''Celestial'''.
* '''Radio'''.
* '''Radar'''.
* '''Satellite'''.
* '''Sonar'''.
 
==References==
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==Sources==
* ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', Eleventh Edition, 2004.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]

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Navigation has been defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the process or activity of navigating by planning and directing the route or course of a vessel such as a ship or aircraft.[1] Plotting the course is achieved by the use of instruments or maps. Navigation also refers to the passage of shipping along its chosen course. In Great Britain, the term is sometimes nominally applied to a canal or other navigable inland waterway.

Methods of navigation include:

  • Dead reckoning. The process of calculating the vessel's current position by reference to an already determined position (known as a "fix") and taking due account of speed, heading (i.e., direction/course), and time elapsed since leaving the fix.
  • Celestial.
  • Radio.
  • Radar.
  • Satellite.
  • Sonar.

References

  1. ↑ OED, 2004, page 955.

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