Navigation vs. Taxonomy — What's the Difference?

Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks.

The classification and naming of organisms in an ordered system that is intended to indicate natural relationships, especially evolutionary relationships.

The theory and practice of navigating, especially the charting of a course for a ship or aircraft.

The science, laws, or principles of classification.

Travel or traffic by vessels, especially commercial shipping.

An ordered arrangement of groups or categories

(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

(uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

(countable) A canal.

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

Ships in general.

A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Ship traffic;

Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

The work of a sailor