different between navigation vs navigator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin n?vig?ti?nem, accusative singular of n?vig?ti? (“sailing, navigation”), from n?vig?tus, perfect passive participle of n?vig? (“sail”).Morphologically navigate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næv???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

navigation (usually uncountable, plural navigations)

1. (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.
2. (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
3. (countable) A canal.

Derived terms

• navigation light
• radionavigation

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?vig?ti?nem, accusative singular of n?vig?ti? (“sailing, navigation”), from n?vig?tus, perfect passive participle of n?vig? (“sail”). Surface etymology is naviguer +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.?a.sj??/

Noun

navigation f (plural navigations)

1. navigation

Related terms

• naviguer

Further reading

• “navigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin n?vig?ti?, attested from 1680.

Noun

navigation c (uncountable)

1. navigation

Declension

References

English

Noun

navigator (plural navigators)

1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
2. A sea explorer.
3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
   • 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius (page 38)

     Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

5. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

Derived terms

• inertial navigator
• navigatrix

Related terms

• navigate
• navigation

Translations

Latin

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

n?vig?tor m (genitive n?vig?t?ris); third declension

1. a sailor or mariner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Spanish: navegador

Etymology 2

Verb

n?vig?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of n?vig?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of n?vig?

References

• navigator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• navigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French navigateur, Italian navigatore.

Noun

navigator m (plural navigatori)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

Synonyms

• (browser): browser, explorator