Published by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office
Under Authority of the Secretary of the Navy
Navigation is essentially an applied science and touches many other fields, borrowing copiously from their terminology. If terms rleating primarily to such branches of science as astronomy, cartography, electronics, mathematics, meteorology, oceanography, surveyeying, etc., are found in these pages, it is because the navigator's sphere of interest overlaps these fields. An attempt has been made to define such terms in the language and from the viewpoint of the navigator. Only those meanings more or less directly related to navigation have been included.
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