"navigation light" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: navigation lights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} navigation light (plural navigation lights)
  1. (nautical, aviation) one of two or more lights fitted to a ship or aircraft, which indicate position and direction taken, especially important at night. Internationally recognised colours are red on the port side, and green on the starboard side. Tags: plural, regional Categories (topical): Aviation, Nautical Hypernyms: light Translations (one of the lights on a ship or aircraft): kulkuvalo (english: ship) (Finnish), lentovalo (english: aircraft) (Finnish), lanterne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lanterne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lanterna [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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