navigationally - Glite Dictionary

Examples

Navigationally.

Interstellar (2014)
Specifically, route navigation requires the recognition of landmarks and places encountered during learning, knowledge about the sequence in which places/landmarks were encountered, the selection of landmarks that are navigationally relevant (i.e., those at decision points), and typically also the association of directional information with these landmarks.

Academic text (2017)
The app provides directions navigationally to help users find their destination easily.
Boating on the lake is navigationally simpler thanks to the clear signs along the shoreline.
When sailing, it is crucial to navigate navigationally to avoid hazards and reach the correct harbor.

Synonyms

directionally

vsnavigationally

1 5.3

In a way that depends on which way something faces or points

is about finding routes and guiding movement rather than mere direction dependence

orientationally

vsnavigationally

1 7.4

In a way that shows the direction or position of something

is about finding routes and guiding movement

Surface Forms

navigationally positive

Morphology

navigationally = navigational (transparent) = navigate + ion + al + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'navigational', producing a straightforward adverbial meaning.

Etymology

The word navigationally comes from navigate, which goes back to the root nav-, seen in navy, and the Latin navis meaning 'ship'. So to do something navigationally is to do it in a way that helps 'find direction' or 'move safely', like a map or compass helps a ship find its way.