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(Latin: ship, ships; sailor)
bionavigate
To return to a given site without the use of landmarks, as some birds to their roosts, by means of instinctual abilities of some animals.
bionavigation
1. The instinctual ability of some animals to return to a given site without the use of landmarks, as birds to their roosts or salmon to spawning streams.
2. The ability of certain animals to travel to a precise distant location; such as, a breeding or wintering site, without any evident use of landmarks.
circumnavigable
1. The ability to sail or to fly around.
2. Capable of making the circuit of by navigation: "The earth is circumnavigable if one has the right aircraft."
3. The possibility of going or maneuvering around: "They had to find a circumnavigable way to get through the heavy downtown traffic."
circumnavigate
1. To sail or to fly around something; such as, the world or an island.
2. To go around; to circumvent.
A man is striving to circumnavigate a stone structure in an effort to get rid of the threatening sharks.
circumnavigation
1. The act of traveling around something (by ship or plane).
2. Sailing all the way around something.
3. Moving around something in order to avoid hitting it.
4. A satellite or small body in orbit around a larger body; such as, the earth or another celestial body.
Two examples of circumnavigation on the earth and in outer space.
circumnavigator
1. Anyone who travels around.
2. A person who flies or sails around; such as, the world, an island, or other situation.
Galileo Navigation System
Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)
morbus nauticus (navalis, naviticus)
Seasickness.
naval
navarch
The commander of a fleet; an admiral.
nave
navicular
navigability
navigable