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nav

14 7.5
A device in a car or boat that shows the route
  • noun
  • /næv/
  • Informal
translation icon : sistema de navegación
  • The nav system in my car provides turn-by-turn directions to my destination.
  • nav system
  • nav beacon
  • nav screen

You could be like a sat NAV or a Siri.

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Examples

  • Before leaving for your destination, you simply program the nav and off you go.

    Blog text (29)
  • Get that sat nav set up!

  • Check out this NAV system.

  • Let's put in the SAT NAV, the address.

  • Put the coordinates in the nav.

  • No, but my nav system has real-time traffic pattern algorithms.

  • So neuroscientists are studying the effect on us of using sat NAV systems for navigation, for example.

  • Upload those coordinates to Dom's nav.

  • Look, here's a sat-nav device.

  • The white landing lights still rippled the length of the ship, and the nav beacons still flashed.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

navigation
vsnav
  • Specialized
99 3.6

Planning and guiding vehicles like ships or planes from one place to another

is the informal name for that planning and control process
navigational system
vsnav
  • Specialized
3 4.4

A set of tools that shows a ship's or plane's position and direction on a map

is an informal term for that system or the act of guiding a vehicle

Surface Forms

nav singular
navs plural

Etymology

Nav is a short form of navigation, which comes from the old root nav- meaning 'ship', the same root as in navy. Navigation was first about finding your way at sea, so today nav often means the system that helps a car or boat find its route.