navigability

navigable | American Dictionary

navigable
adjective
us/ˈnæv·ɪ·ɡə·bəl/
deep and wide enough for a ship to go through:
a navigable stretch of river

Examples of navigable

navigable
There was no navigable water in either direction.
The separating process is in its initial stage, with the strait still navigable.
The new cities were located on the imperial highways usually at points where they crossed a navigable river thus facilitating communication and boosting commerce.
These representations must also be navigable if they are to be useful as tools for planning or reacting to events.
We describe a number of interesting applications of these operators, including a simple algorithm to enumerate the elements of a finite navigable lattice.
The site is only accessible by either small boat or helicopter, as certain sections of the river are not navigable by larger equipment.
In addition to navigable passages, the availability of rich soil and farmland provided more usable land on which to settle.
In section 5 we extend the framework to describe a class of navigable lattices which provide additional operators for working with frontier values.
How could stagnant water from trenches be reconciled with that of the navigable rivers?
Piece by piece the blank areas of the polar chart were filled in: discernible features - capes, bays, and navigable straits - gradually replaced fantastical sea-beasts and magnetic mountains.
This breadth brings its own problems, naturally, although the editor has clearly spared no effort to make the book easily navigable by even the least expert reader.
The river is an important water-way, but though navigable for ocean-going steamers for about 250 miles from the sea, does not lead beyond the coast region.
The program was conducted in the late winter to allow for the construction of an overland winter route to the site, since the river was not navigable by barge.
It seems that the canal is one of the largest navigable sewers in the world.
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