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NAVIGABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does navigable mean?
• NAVIGABLE (adjective)
The adjective NAVIGABLE has 1 sense:
1. able to be sailed on or through safely
Familiarity information: NAVIGABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to be sailed on or through safely
Context example:
a navigable channel
Similar:
passable (able to be passed or traversed or crossed)
Derivation:
navigability (the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft)
navigate (travel on water propelled by wind or by other means)
Context examples
The highest lake navigable by large ships, Lake Titicaca, is over 12,000 feet (3,700 meters) above sea level.
(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)
The act or task of directed movement from one location to another; the state of being navigable.
(Navigation, NCI Thesaurus)
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