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Gps

//d͡ʒiˈpi.es// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Global Positioning System (“a U.S. military-based satellite navigation system”). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Since then he has been an Consultant Engineer within INMOS, specialising in GPS and satcomms applications of the transputer."

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    ""But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery."

  2. 2
    plural of GP form-of, plural
  3. 3
    plural of gp form-of, plural
  4. 4
    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 wordnet
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of GPS receiver. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Initialism of Goodpasture syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To locate something using a GPS system. transitive

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