avigation

Noun

1. Aerial navigation.
   • The “highs” and “lows” familiar to the meteorologists—the areas of high and low barometric pressure—are forever playing tag with each other, the air from one area flowing in upon the other much as water seeks its own...
   • The purpose of this book is to give the pilot a clear understanding of avigation by dead reckoning, the system used by Colonel Lindbergh in his memorable flight. - 1929, Ienar Ewald Elm, Avigation by Dead Reckoning,...
   • Another reason for the neglected status of avigation is the fact that in the past there has been only slight and spasmodic need for the new science. - 1928 May 5, Flying Magazine, page 40: