Usually means: Traveling all the way around.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word circumnavigation:

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  1. circumnavigation: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumnavigation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumnavigation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. circumnavigation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Circumnavigation, circumnavigation: Wordnik
  6. circumnavigation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. circumnavigation: Wiktionary
  8. Circumnavigation, circumnavigation: Dictionary.com
  9. Circumnavigation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Circumnavigation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. circumnavigation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. circumnavigation: Rhymezone
  13. Circumnavigation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. circumnavigation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. circumnavigation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. circumnavigation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. circumnavigation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Circumnavigation: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumnavigation)

▸ noun:  The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

Similar:
circumvolation, circumcursation, circumposition, circination, circumgyration, circuition, circumversion, circumambulation, circumduction, circumvolution, more...

Opposite:
transpolar, transarctic, transantarctic

Types:
westward, eastward, northward, southward, clockwise, counterclockwise, more...

Phrases:
Francis Drake's circumnavigation, 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation, Circumnavigation world record progression, First aerial circumnavigation, Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, complete, third, famous, successful, phoenician, year, global, russian, handed



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Similar:
circumvolation, circumcursation, circumposition, circination, circumgyration, circuition, circumversion, circumambulation, circumduction, circumvolution, more...

Opposite:
transpolar, transarctic, transantarctic

Types:
westward, eastward, northward, southward, clockwise, counterclockwise, more...

Phrases:
Francis Drake's circumnavigation, 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation, Circumnavigation world record progression, First aerial circumnavigation, Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, complete, third, famous, successful, phoenician, year, global, russian, handed



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