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global positioning system

noun

global positioning system

noun

Etymology From the proper noun Global Positioning System.

1

Any system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from satellites such as those of the US military, the Russian GLONASS system, or the proposed Galileo European alternative system.

Hyponyms
NavStar, Navstar, GPS, Global Positioning System, Beidou, BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.