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.

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   The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy. At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.

   2024 January 24, Tami Luhby, “Obamacare sign-ups hit record 21.3 million as Biden pushes his efforts to lower health care costs”, in CNN

2. A sea explorer.

   He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.

   2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2021

3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. computingA user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.

   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 […]

   2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38

5. obsoleteA labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.