Circumnavigation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Circumnavigation \Cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion\, n.
     The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. --Arbuthnot.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  circumnavigation
       n : traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's
           circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"