gps

IPA: gˈipiˈɛs

Root Word: GPS

(navigation) Initialism of Global Positioning System (“U.S. military-based satellite navigation system”). [(cartography) A system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites.]
(cartography) Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”). [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.]
Ellipsis of GPS receiver. [An audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation.]

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