navigation
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 →
2) The steering of a ship or plane. tree →
3) (computing) The way you move around a website or app; its menus and links. tree →
4) A system that shows the way, such as a sat nav. tree →
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 →
- Our car has a navigation system. tree →
- Birds use the Earth's magnetism for navigation. tree →
- The website has easy navigation. tree →
- We learned map and compass navigation on camp. tree →
- The lighthouse helps with navigation at night. tree →
- Turn on the navigation app before we leave. tree →
- They were at last blown on shore, for navigation was primitive in those days. tree →
note
Uncountable. Verb: navigate. «Sat nav» (UK) = satellite navigation device. Related: navigator.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «navigation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.