1A person who directs the route or course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transportation, especially by using instruments and maps.

1. 1.1historical A person who explores by sea.
   New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman

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   • No less a navigator than Capt. James Cook failed to find the strait 180 years later, in fact.
   • The islands were named for British navigator John Marshall who explored them in 1788.
   • By the middle of the 16th century, the Portuguese, then the world's foremost sailors and navigators, had already infiltrated a large part of Asia.
   • The country set sail in the early fifteenth century and never looked back, its explorers and navigators opening up lucrative trade routes to Africa and India.
   • Portugal's prolific voyages in the 15th century served to usher in this age of exploration with superb navigators and trading ports.
   • In 1642 the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman, anchored off Golden Bay, thinking he had found part of the legendary great southern continent which the Dutch East India Company had sent him to find.
   • The Vikings were very skilled shipbuilders and navigators and only sailed between the months of April and early October.
   • Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Senegal in 1445.
   • A year later, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci sailed to Brazil on a voyage commissioned by the Portuguese crown and returned home with a cargo of hard, reddish wood.
   • The early European navigators and explorers mostly undertook their voyages at the behest of kings in search of wealth.
   • As Renaissance philosophers debated the nature of their world, navigators, instrument-makers, and scientists began to channel these philosophical debates into practical solutions to natural problems.
   • Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
   • The first European to discover New Zealand was Abel Tasman, a navigator for the Dutch East India Company, in 1642.
   • The city also boasts the tomb of William Adams, a British navigator who made it ashore when his ship was lost in nearby waters at the end of the 16th century.
   • The islands were first discovered by Portuguese navigators between 1469 and 1472.
   • Dutch and possibly Portuguese navigators had done much to chart the westerly approaches to the Pacific.
   • The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India.
   • Captain James Cook, the legendary British navigator and explorer, recorded the transit of Venus from Tahiti in 1769.
2. 1.2 An instrument or device that assists in directing the course of a vessel or aircraft.
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   • Beneath it is a navigator button, though this time it's oblong rather than round.
   • He claimed the package was the ‘first quality in-car GPS navigator at a tenth of the price’.
   • Pocket-ShPIDER as navigator displays the GPS position corrected with SISNeT inside an interactive map.
   • According to the blurb, the Iris 50 Compass is the ‘definitive night navigator.’
   • In supermarkets, where space is less limited, self-scanners and store navigators can be attached to shopping trolleys that are then docked at the checkout for payment.
   • However, you can clearly see the new navigator design and case styling.
   • Geographical positions were estimated by the GPS navigator of the ship.
   • At high frequency, the user position and velocity estimates of the navigator are fed back to the GPS tracking loops.
   • This filter provides updates to the navigator's estimate of position and velocity and often includes additional states such as IMU sensor bias errors.
   • Just like in real life, your car comes with a navigator.
   • In the lounge was the navigator console, various computers hidden in the walls for research, sofas, tables, and reading material.
   • The personal navigator will provide routing and guidance information
3. 1.3Computing A browser program for retrieving data on the World Wide Web or another information system.
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   • Alongside the navigator are two application buttons, invoking the Calendar and Contacts applications.
   • The left-hand side of x3i presents the obligatory jog-dial navigator and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
   • The navigator is smaller than before, but I found it no less easy to use for that, though I did find myself catching the other buttons more frequently than I did with the previous incarnation of Magician.
   • The screen is placed between two five-way navigator controls - the one on the left-hand side is used to control playback, the other to locate and select files to play.
   • There's also what's called a five-way navigator button; it serves as your main control for moving around the Treo screen and selecting items.
   • The device also sports a large-size display, application launch buttons and five-way navigator control.
   • You can conveniently control the cursor with a separate navigator control pad, scroll dial on the side or the stylus.
   • Want to check your Web site for compatibility with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator?
   • Press the zoom key, located above the navigator control, position the green square over the area of the screen you want magnified, press the button again and up it comes at double the size.
   • This connection makes the flowcharting software act as a front-end navigator to the back-end system.
   • To take a still image or (with an optional expansion card) video, you press the center of a five-way navigator button or tap an onscreen button.
   • You have this advanced data browser, and if you want it, the simple, one-window web navigator like approach (like Windows and now Nautilus provide).
   • Pressing the iPaq's navigator control to the left calls up the software's main menu.
   • Method and apparatus for front end navigator and network architecture for performing functions on distributed files in a computer network
   • The MP - 100 also provides easy track and file deletion, and even a basic folder navigator so you can see what's stored on the device without having to connect it to a computer first.
   • The block navigator, used to organize blocks and commands into categories, comes with hundreds of blocks plus samples of thousands more that are available in optional libraries.
   • Its styles capability is easier to work with and it has a navigator window which is useful for long documents.