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Navigation dam
A navigation dam is a low dam built across a navigable river to impound a pool deep enough for barge traffic, with gates holding the water level nearly constant.
Navigation function
A navigation function is an artificial potential function that guides a robot to a destination without hitting obstacles, introduced by Elon Rimon and Daniel Koditschek in 1992.
Navigation light
A navigation light, also called a position light, is a lamp aboard a vessel showing its presence, size, and direction of travel to other vessels, required by the COLREGs.
Navigational bronchoscopy
Navigational bronchoscopy is a bronchoscopic technique that uses CT-derived airway maps and real-time image guidance to reach peripheral lung lesions for biopsy, with a diagnostic yield around 70%.
Navigator
Navigator, also known as MC Navigator, is a British jungle and drum and bass MC from London who made his name on pirate station Kool FM.
Navigator Energy Services
Navigator Energy Services is an American independent midstream company that builds and operates crude oil and natural gas infrastructure, best known for the Glass Mountain Pipeline in Oklahoma.
Navigator Medicines
Navigator Medicines is an American clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2024 that develops bispecific antibodies blocking OX40L and TNFα; its lead drug, NAV-240, is in Phase 2a trials for hidradenitis suppurativa.
NAVIGATOR trial (NCT03347279)
NAVIGATOR (NCT03347279) was the pivotal phase 3 tezepelumab trial: 1061 patients aged 12-80 with severe uncontrolled asthma, 210 mg subcutaneous every 4 weeks for 52 weeks, reducing exacerbation rate 56% versus placebo.
Navillera (나빌레라) (TV series)
Navillera (나빌레라) is a 2021 tvN Korean drama, 12 episodes, adapted from the Daum webtoon by HUN and Ji-min, starring Park In-hwan as a 70-year-old retired postman who learns ballet from Song Kang's 23-year-old ballerino; streamed on Netflix.
Navimed Partners
NaviMed Partners, L.P. is the inaugural fund of NaviMed Capital, a healthcare private equity firm founded in 2011 in Arlington, Virginia, by Ryan Schwarz, Brian Canann, and Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh.
Navin Chaddha
Navin Chaddha is a venture capitalist who leads Mayfield, a Menlo Park early-stage firm, and is known for early investments in Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp.
Navin Chowdhry
Navin Chowdhry is a British actor from Bristol, known as Kurt in Teachers, Anwar in Doctor Foster, and Nish Panesar in EastEnders, winning Villain of the Year in 2024 and 2025; debut aged 15 in Madame Sousatzka.
Navin Nischol (नवीन निश्चल)
Navin Nischol (नवीन निश्चल), also spelled Naveen Nischol, Indian film and TV actor (1946-2011), FTII gold medalist; debut Sawan Bhadon (1970) with Rekha, later Dekh Bhai Dekh and Khosla Ka Ghosla.
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty, born 1970 in India, is a geographer and sustainability scientist at the University of British Columbia who built the first global historical cropland datasets.
Navin Ramgoolam
Navin Ramgoolam, full name Navinchandra Ramgoolam, is a Mauritian politician and leader of the Labour Party, serving as prime minister since 2024, his fourth term.
NavInfo (四维图新)
NavInfo, also known as 四维图新, is a Beijing digital mapping and automotive software company founded in 2002 that supplies HD maps, ADAS services, and automotive chips.
Navio
Navio was a Roman auxiliary fort at Brough, Derbyshire, built c. AD 80, reoccupied AD 154-158, abandoned after AD 350; its vicus, Batham Gate road, and Peak District lead-industry role distinguish it.
NAVIO Surgical System
The NAVIO Surgical System is a handheld, imageless robotic platform for knee replacement surgery, developed by Blue Belt Technologies and acquired by Smith & Nephew in 2015 for $275 million.
Navis (software company)
Navis is an American software company founded in 1988 in Oakland, California, whose SPARCS and N4 systems run container terminals worldwide; since 2022 it is a Kaleris brand.
Navis Capital Partners
Navis Capital Partners is a private equity buyout firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, taking controlling stakes in mid-sized companies across Southeast Asia.
Navish
Navish: an ancient place in the Barrington Atlas (92 F2) and Pleiades gazetteer (ID 903087), a temple-type site in western Iran dated AD 300-640; also a Kitchawank place name meaning "grassy plains" and a Sanskrit given name.
Navistar DT engine
The Navistar DT engine, best known as the DT466, is a 7.6-liter inline six-cylinder diesel built by International Harvester and Navistar from 1971 to 2016.
Navistar International
Navistar International, successor to International Harvester, was the name from 1986 to 2024 of the Illinois truck and bus maker now called International Motors and owned by Volkswagen's TRATON SE.
Navisworks
Navisworks is an Autodesk application for Building Information Modeling projects that aggregates models from many tools into one federated model for clash detection, 4D scheduling, and quantity takeoff.
Navitaire
Navitaire is an airline and rail passenger technology company headquartered in Minneapolis and owned by Amadeus, best known for its New Skies passenger service system for low-cost carriers.
Navitar
Navitar, Inc. is an American optics company headquartered in Rochester, New York. Founded in 1972, it makes imaging and projection lenses and was acquired by AMETEK in 2022.
Navitas Petroleum Limited Partnership
Navitas Petroleum LP (נאביטס פטרוליום) is an Israeli oil and gas partnership controlled by Gideon Tadmor, with assets in the Gulf of Mexico and the Falkland Islands.
Navitas Semiconductor
Navitas Semiconductor is a California company founded in 2014 that makes gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide power chips for fast chargers and AI data centers.
Navitoclax
Navitoclax (ABT-263, A-855071.0) is an oral Bcl-2 family inhibitor targeting Bcl-2, Bcl-XL, and Bcl-w, studied in lymphoma, CLL, and solid tumors; development limited by Bcl-XL-driven thrombocytopenia, leading to venetoclax.
Navjot Singh Sidhu (ਨਵਜੋਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ)
Navjot Singh Sidhu (ਨਵਜੋਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ), born 1963 in Patiala, is an Indian former cricketer (51 Tests, 136 ODIs, 1983–1999), commentator, TV personality, and politician: three-term Amritsar MP, Punjab Congress chief in 2021, jailed one year in a 1988 road rage case.