Circumnavigation – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
circumnavigation
n.
act of sailing around the world in a ship
Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent. This article is concerned with circumnavigation of the Earth. The first known circumnavigation of
Earth was the
Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522 after crossing the
Atlantic,
Pacific and
Indian oceans.
circumnavigation
Noun
1. traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"
(hypernym) travel, traveling, travelling
(derivation) circumnavigate, compass
(classification) airplane, aeroplane, plane
circumnavigation
n.
obeplutí
Circumnavigation
(n.)
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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