GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM meaning: Satellite navigation system for location

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Global positioning system)

▸ noun: (cartography) A system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites.
▸ noun: 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.

Opposite:

localization, non-GPS, manual navigation

Types:

GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, NavIC, more...

Phrases:

global positioning system (gps), differential global positioning system, navstar global positioning system, Error analysis for the Global Positioning System, agps assisted global positioning system, more...

Adjectives:

antisatellite, transorbital, hyper, space age, secondary, astronautical, spacing, geostationary, spacely, alpha, spaceborne

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