GPS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: gps

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Global Positioning System; GPS

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("GPS" is a kind of...):

navigational system (a system that provides information useful in determining the position and course of a ship or aircraft)

Credits

Context examples:

Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)

The scientists used radio or GPS transmitters to track alligators adn discovered that the amount of time alligators spend in fresh or salt water depends on factors such as tide range and water temperature.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

To understand the scope of the problem, Hull and her colleagues put the same type of GPS collars they were using to track pandas on one horse in each of four herds they studied.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

These disturbances were monitored using signals transmitted by the Global Positioning System (GPS) that were received by a science-quality GPS receiver located in a neighboring region to Nepal.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)

Vanessa Hull, a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve, most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.