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1Navigation Road station — Navigation Road Navigation Road station showing the newly rebuilt Metrolink platform (right) compared with the ill maintained National Rail platform (left …
2navigation — navigational, adj. /nav i gay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of navigating. 2. the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile. [1520 30; < L navigation (s. of navigatio) a voyage.… …
3Navigation Acts — The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, a process which had started in 1651. Their goal was to force colonial development …
4Olfactory navigation — It is possible that homing pigeons may navigate by smell Olfactory navigation is a hypothesis put forward to explain navigation and homing of pigeons, in particular the homing pigeon. There are two principal versions. Papi’s mosaic model proposes …
5Earth's magnetic field — Computer simulation of the Earth s field in a normal period between reversals.[1] The tubes represent magnetic field lines, blue when the field points towards the center and yellow when away. The rotation axis of the Earth is centered and… …
6List of selected stars for navigation — The selected stars for navigation are often used for sextant observations. Fifty eight selected navigational stars are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately 6,000 stars visible to the naked eye under… …
7Ellington Field — Infobox Airport name = Ellington Field image width = 220 IATA = EFD ICAO = KEFD FAA = EFD type = Public / Military owner = City of Houston operator = city served = location = Houston, Texas elevation f = 32 elevation m = 10 coordinates =… …
8Remote magnetic navigation — Remote Magnetic Navigation, or Stereotaxis, is an emerging technology in interventional cardiology. Catheters with magnetic tips can be steered within the patient, without the need for an electrophysiologist to maneuver the catheter placement… …
9Course (navigation) — In navigation, a vehicle s course is the angle that the intended path of the vehicle makes with a fixed reference object (typically true north). Typically course is measured in degrees from 0° clockwise to 360° in compass convention (0° being… …
10Bone segment navigation — is a method used in the surgical field in order to obtain the correct anatomical position of displaced bone fragments in fractures, allowing a good fixation by osteosynthesis. It has been developed for the first time in Oral and maxillofacial… …
