: a navigational system using satellite signals to fix the location of a radio receiver on or above the earth's surface
also
: the radio receiver so used
gallons per second
Examples of GPS in a Sentence
Noun
The car comes with GPS.
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Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 13 June 2024
The School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and UC San Diego prepared me with two incredibly useful tools: an analytic framework and cross-cultural understanding.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The Workout app will also add GPS routes to more workout types, including soccer, American football, Australian football, outdoor hockey, lacrosse, various types of skiing, snowboarding, golf, and outdoor rowing.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 June 2024
The bombs have a range of at least 40 miles and are guided by GPS with coordinates for specific targets set before the weapons are launched.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 8 June 2024
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Noun
Many people who previously would have served time on work release instead are being sentenced to options such as probation or home detention, in which an offender is typically tracked with a GPS monitor and allowed to live at home and go to work, Diggins said.
—Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 13 June 2024
The School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and UC San Diego prepared me with two incredibly useful tools: an analytic framework and cross-cultural understanding.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The Workout app will also add GPS routes to more workout types, including soccer, American football, Australian football, outdoor hockey, lacrosse, various types of skiing, snowboarding, golf, and outdoor rowing.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 June 2024
The bombs have a range of at least 40 miles and are guided by GPS with coordinates for specific targets set before the weapons are launched.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 8 June 2024
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“GPS.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GPS. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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