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navigable
[nav-i-guh-buhl]
deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships.
a navigable channel.
capable of being steered or guided, as a ship, aircraft, or missile.
Computers.designed or arranged in a way that facilitates moving from web page to web page or from one section to another on a website.
navigable
/ ˈæɪɡəə /
wide, deep, or safe enough to be sailed on or through
a navigable channel
capable of being steered or controlled
a navigable raft
Other Word Forms
- navigability noun
- navigableness noun
- navigably adverb
- nonnavigability noun
- nonnavigable adjective
- nonnavigableness noun
- nonnavigably adverb
- unnavigability noun
- unnavigable adjective
- unnavigableness noun
- unnavigably adverb
- ˌԲˈٲ noun
- ˈԲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of navigable1
Example Sentences
Some are navigable, as we saw in “Six Feet Under.”
The court ruled that the law’s protections for the “waters of the United States” apply only to wetlands and streams that are directly connected to navigable waterways.
Year after year, Caltrans moves mountains to keep that two-lane road navigable.
Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the shipping channel in Baltimore to ensure that it is navigable, would fully cover the costs of clearing the channel.
An appeals court hundreds of miles away will determine later this year if a federal judge was right when he ordered the buoys removed for violating a law against construction on a navigable waterway.
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