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circumnavigation

Noun

∙ The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

BABYLON ENGLISH
circumnavigation n.
act of sailing around the world in a ship

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
circumnavigation
circumnavigation
\cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion\ (?), n. the act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

WORDNET 2.0
circumnavigation
Noun
1. traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"
(hypernym) travel, traveling, travelling
(derivation) circumnavigate, compass
(classification) airplane, aeroplane, plane

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth. The first known circumnavigation of Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522 after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

circumnavigation

Noun

∙ The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

BABYLON ENGLISH
circumnavigation n.
act of sailing around the world in a ship

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
circumnavigation
circumnavigation
\cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion\ (?), n. the act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

WORDNET 2.0
circumnavigation
Noun
1. traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"
(hypernym) travel, traveling, travelling
(derivation) circumnavigate, compass
(classification) airplane, aeroplane, plane

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth. The first known circumnavigation of Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522 after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

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