Navigator

Definitions

1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
2. A sea explorer.
3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
5. A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“The increases kept many navigator groups, which help⟳ people pick⟳ policies, very busy. At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select⟳ plans each week during this open⟳ enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.”

“He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.”

“Although the window looks like⟳ a view⟳ of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear⟳ here are called groups; they don't exist⟳ on disk. They appear⟳ in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]”

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