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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does navigational instrument mean?

• NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT (noun)
The noun NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. an instrument used for navigating

Familiarity information: NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An instrument used for navigating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("navigational instrument" is a kind of...):

instrument (a device that requires skill for proper use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "navigational instrument"):

artificial horizon; flight indicator; gyro horizon (a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope; it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot)

compass (navigational instrument for finding directions)

depth finder (navigational instrument used to measure the depth of a body of water (as by ultrasound or radar))

inclinometer (an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon)

asdic; echo sounder; sonar (a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return)

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