circumnavigation

English

Etymology

circum- +‎ navigation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

circumnavigation (countable and uncountable, plural circumnavigations)

1. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

Synonyms

• periplus

Hypernyms

• navigation

Translations

circumnavigating

• Bulgarian: околосветско плаване
• Catalan: circumnavegació f
• Esperanto: ĉirkaŭnavigado
• Finnish: ympäripurjehdus
• French: circumnavigation (fr) f
• Greek: περίπλους (el) m (períplous)
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• Italian: circumnavigazione (it) f
• Japanese: 世界一周 (sekai isshū)
• Korean: 세계일주 (segyeilju (世界一周))
• Scottish Gaelic: iom-sheòladh m
• Spanish: circunnavegación f
• Tagalog: tikuplayag

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʁ.kɔm.na.vi.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

circumnavigation f (plural circumnavigations)

1. circumnavigation

Further reading

• “circumnavigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.