: 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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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
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The metadata for the video contained GPS coordinates for the location where the video was recorded, Shackleford Park in Fort Worth.
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Noun
Built by L3Harris, it’s funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and potential replacement technology for GPS.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
While large SAWs can topple buildings, these tiny versions are essential to modern electronics, serving as precision filters in smartphones, GPS, and radar systems.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
The metadata for the video contained GPS coordinates for the location where the video was recorded, Shackleford Park in Fort Worth.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2026
Police discovered another incident while combing through weeks of GPS data.
—Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
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“GPS.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GPS. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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