Definition of Global Positioning System

1. Noun. A navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver.

Exact synonyms: Gps
Generic synonyms: Navigational System

Definition of Global Positioning System

1. Proper noun. (cartography) A system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Global Positioning System

Gley's gland
Gliese
Gliese 581
Glifada
Glinka
Gliridae
Glis
Glis glis
Glisson
Glisson's capsule
Glisson's cirrhosis
Glisson's sphincter
Glittertind
Gliwice
Gln
Global Positioning System (current term)
Globicephala
Globicephala melaena
Globigerinidae
Globish
Globocephalus
Glock
Gloger's rule
Gloomy Gus
Gloria
Gloria May Josephine Svensson
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Swanson
Gloriosa superba
Glorious Revolution

Literary usage of Global Positioning System

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Environmental Indicators for Agriculture by Organisation for Economic Co-operation, SourceOECD (Online service), Development. (2001)
"... such as the global positioning system, to collect data at exact locations and the geographical information system, to map more precisely fertiliser and ..."

2. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force & the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"Navigation Satellites-The Navstar Global Positioning System In the early 1970s, the Air Force acquired responsibility for an additional space ..."

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