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navigation

process of monitoring and directing the movement of a person, craft or vehicle from one place to another
Intangible academic_discipline Q102066
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Summary

navigation is an academic discipline[1]. navigation ranks in the top 10% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (532 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • navigation's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • navigation's instance of is recorded as field of study[4].
  • navigation's instance of is recorded as field of study[5].
  • navigation is a type of skill[6].
  • navigation is a type of intentional human activity[7].
  • navigation's Commons category is recorded as Navigation[8].
  • navigation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Navigation[9].
  • navigation's Commons gallery is recorded as Navigation[10].
  • navigation's facet of is recorded as travel[11].
  • navigation's facet of is recorded as transport[12].
  • navigation's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[13].
  • navigation's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • navigation's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • navigation's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • navigation's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • navigation's practiced by is recorded as navigator[18].
  • navigation's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include academic discipline[3] and field of study[4]. Recorded subclass of include skill[6] and intentional human activity[7].

Why It Matters

navigation ranks in the top 10% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (532 views/month).[2] navigation has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] navigation is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Andrey V. Savkin autonomous navigation Gaia GPS Henry Hudson MapaMap Matthew Flinders Navigo Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses Pierre Bouguer

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). navigation. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/navigation
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_navigation_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{navigation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/navigation}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Facet of → travel, transport
    Topic's main category → Category:Navigation
    Practiced by → navigator
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2050, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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