circumnavigation

Other forms: circumnavigations

Definitions of circumnavigation
  1. noun
    traveling around something (by ship or plane)
    “Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe”
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    type of:
    travel, traveling, travelling
    the act of going from one place to another
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