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nautical

adj
/ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/UK/ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/US/ˈnɑ.tɪ.kəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nautique + -al, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

  1. derived from ναυτικός
  2. derived from nauticus
  3. borrowed from nautique

Definitions

  1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

    • nautical charts
    • I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.
    • The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at nautical. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at nautical. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at nautical

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA