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Noun: circumnavigation  `sur-kum-na-vi'gey-shun
  1. Travelling around something (by ship or plane)
    "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe"

Derived forms: circumnavigations

See also: circumnavigate

Type of: travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Circumnavigation

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