(a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
(2) When this noise was compared with radar returns it showed that eight seconds after the explosion, the wreckage had a one nautical mile (1.9km) spread .
(3) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
(4) Israel had vowed to block the flotilla from reaching Gaza, accusing the organisers of embarking on "an act of provocation" against the Israeli military, and claiming its entry into the 20 nautical mile closure of the sea off Gaza would amount to a violation of international law.
(5) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(6) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
(7) The navy likes to boast about the missile’s accuracy: it can hit a target 4,000 nautical miles away and be accurate to within a few metres.
(8) If US relations with China turn sour, there will probably be war | Timothy Garton Ash Read more The patrol will mark the most serious US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims around the islands, and follows months of deliberation.
(9) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
(10) One of the peculiarities of Beijing’s longstanding claim over the two South China Sea island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys, is that they lie so far from the country that it has been effectively impossible for the Chinese military to patrol the area from its existing bases hundreds of nautical miles away.
(11) However, Vice Admiral Style said the boarding of the dhow had taken place 7.5 nautical miles south-east of the al-Faw peninsula in Iran.
(12) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
(13) The race is the longest ocean race in the world at 27,000 nautical miles.
(14) China says its territorial waters extend for 12 nautical miles from the land, a line that the US has challenged verbally but until now ordered its navy to respect.
(15) From 2,580 submariners, divers, and frogmen, 13,618 individual findings were evaluated from a total of about 50,000 dental findings of the Nautical Medical Institute of the German Navy, Kiel, West Germany.
(16) I think that that will invite a sharp response from the Chinese.” He also said Australia should not take part in freedom of navigation operations within 12 nautical miles of the artificial islands, warning: “I think that could provoke a response, a military response, and I don’t think that that would be a good idea.
(17) They flew the Predator drone out of sight and beyond earshot of the targets at about 20,000 feet and a distance of about four nautical miles from the group on the ground.
(18) However there has been a reported boat arrival since then – a group of 157 Tamil asylum seekers , whose boat was intercepted 16 nautical miles off Christmas Island in June 2014, were taken to Curtin detention centre in WA after being detained at sea on an Australian border protection vessel for almost a month.
(19) The Phoenix operates in international waters that start just 12 nautical miles from the shores of Libya – now one of the world’s most violent places, where two separate governments have only tenuous control over their territories.
(20) It is now at the Antarctic continent's Cape de la Motte, 1,500 nautical miles from Hobart in Tasmania.
Navigation
Definition:
(n.) The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
(n.) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.
(n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.
(n.) Ships in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
(3) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(4) Since the introduction of universal credit we’ve made sure staff know how to support customers navigating the new claim system.
(5) It is clear that different subsets of navigational cues guide sensory afferents to muscle and to cutaneous destinations.
(6) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(7) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(8) Further, the results identify the hippocampus as a structure critical for the regulation of navigational behavior that manifests itself in a natural setting.
(9) Right parietal lesions resulted in deficits in both tasks, but especially landmark navigation.
(10) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(11) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(12) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(13) It's only when you try to navigate the system for an elderly relative that you realise how an older person's wellbeing and resilience matter less than the place in the NHS hierarchy of the hospital consultant, GP and social worker.
(14) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.
(15) We are considering how to demonstrate freedom of navigation in an area that is critical to world trade,” a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(16) Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that navigating axons may respond to multiple guidance cues during development.
(17) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(18) But I also know, from my own family’s navigation of a shocking event, that there can be the inverse response as well.
(19) The rats also showed good acquisition of escape response in a water maze task carried out 13 weeks after ischemia, but showed slight impairment of spatial navigation in the transfer test.
(20) This mode of navigation can be modeled as an input control process that selectively retains favorable and rejects unfavorable consequences of the random responses.