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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Circumnavigation \Cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion\, n. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

circumnavigation n 1: traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"