Navigation vs Transportation - What's the difference?
navigation | transportation |
(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship
(uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping
(countable) A canal
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
(US) A means of conveyance.
(US) A ticket or fare.
* 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
As nouns the difference between navigation and transportation
is that navigation is navigation (theory and practice of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship) while transportation is transportation.navigation
English
(wikipedia navigation)Noun
(en-noun)transportation
English
Noun
(-)- We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
- Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
- (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
- Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."