astronav

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

astronav (uncountable)

1. (informal) astronavigation
   • 1968, Charles H. Cotter, A History of Nautical Astronomy, page 31:

     The story of its development through past ages to the present epoch, when the perfected methods of astronav are being cast aside for more accurate electronic methods of navigation, is a story that surely can never fail to excite the student of the history of science.

   • 1993, Peter David, Worf's First Adventure:

     “Astronav? Are you serious? He can barely find his way through the normal physical universe, much less chart a path through warp space. Put him at conn, and you will crash while still in dry dock.”

   • 2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica, page 114:

     While on a double date in the Galactica's astronav post, a “celestial chamber” used by spacefarers in the ancient days of cosmic flight, Apollo, Sheba, Starbuck and Cassiopeia detect a signal on an unused gamma frequency.