global positioning system
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See also: Global Positioning System
English
Etymology
From the proper noun Global Positioning System.
Noun
global positioning system (plural global positioning systems)
- 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.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- NavStar / Navstar / GPS / Global Positioning System (the U.S. government satellite navigation system)
- Beidou / BeiDou (the Chinese government satellite navigation system)
- Galileo (the European Union satellite navigation system)
- GLONASS (the Russian government satellite navigation system)
Translations
system determining precise location based on signals received from satellites
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See also
global positioning system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
