navigator

navigator (plural navigators)

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. (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
   • 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius (page 38)

     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 […]

5. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

• inertial navigator
• navigatrix

• navigate
• navigation

nāvigātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of nāvigō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of nāvigō

• navigator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• navigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From French navigateur, Italian navigatore.

navigator m (plural navigatori)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

• (browser): browser, explorator