Navigation Techniques

noun the process of one celestial body passing in front of another, obscuring it from view

• The astronomer predicted the occultation of the moon by the planet.
• I heard there's going to be an occultation of the moon tonight.
• Did you catch that occultation last night? It was so cool!
• The politician's true intentions were hidden, like an occultation of the sun.

verb to determine or locate the position of something by measuring the distances to two other points

• In order to accurately determine the location of the earthquake epicenter, scientists used triangulation to triangulate the exact point.
• We can triangulate our position by using landmarks to figure out where we are.
• Let's triangulate where the party is tonight so we can meet up.
• By triangulating different sources of information, we were able to piece together the truth of what really happened.