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navigation

 noun
     
Related topics: Geography, Transport, Air, Water
nav‧i‧ga‧tion [uncountable]
1TTSG the science or job of planning which way you need to go when you are travelling from one place to another:
compasses and other instruments of navigation
2TTWTTA when someone sails a ship along a river or other area of water:
Navigation becomes more difficult further up the river.
3 when you click on words, pictures etc in order to move between documents that are connected on the Internet
—navigational adjective [only before noun]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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