GPS

GPS

1. (navigation) Initialism of Global Positioning System (“a U.S. military-based satellite navigation system”).

   Synonyms: NavStar, Navstar

   Hypernyms: GPS/global positioning system, satellite navigation system

• GLONASS (the Russian satellite navigation system)
• BeiDou / Beidou (the Chinese satellite navigation system)
• Galileo (the European Union satellite navigation system)

GPS (plural GPSes)

1. (cartography) Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”).

   Hyponyms: Navstar/NavStar/GPS/Global Positioning System, BeiDou/Beidou, Galileo, GLONASS

2. Ellipsis of GPS receiver.

• GPS art
• GPS receiver

GPS (third-person singular simple present GPSes, present participle GPSing, simple past and past participle GPSed)

1. (transitive) To locate something using a GPS system.

•   GPS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• GSP, PGS, PGs, PSG, Pgs, SPG, pgs, pgs., sGP

 

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

GPS

Wikipedia ^gl

GPS m (invariable)

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System

   Synonym: sistema de posicionamento global

2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

   Synonym: navegador GPS

GPS n (strong, genitive GPS, no plural)

1. GPS

• “GPS” in Duden online

GPS f (proper noun, genitive GPS)

1. (Swiss politics) Initialism of Grüne Partei der Schweiz (“Green Party of Switzerland”).

   Coordinate terms: SVP, SP, FDP, GLP, EVP, EDU

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

GPS

Wikipedia ^pl

 

Unadapted borrowing from English GPS.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐi.piˈɛs/, /ɡjɛ.pɛˈɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: G‧P‧S

GPS m inan (indeclinable)

1. (uncountable, astronautics, cartography, navigation, technology) GPS (Global Positioning System; a system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites)
2. (countable, colloquial, astronautics, cartography, navigation, technology) GPS, GPS receiver (audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation)

   Synonyms: nawigacja, nawigator

or

Indeclinable.

• GPS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• GPS in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• GPS in PWN's encyclopedia

 

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

GPS

Wikipedia ^es

• IPA^(key): /ˈxepese/ [ˈxe.pe.se]
• Rhymes: -epese

GPS m (plural GPS)

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System

   Synonym: sistema de posicionamiento global

2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

   Synonym: navegador GPS

• “GPS”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• gps

Unadapted borrowing from English GPS. First attested in the mid-1980s, probably.^[1]

GPS c

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System
2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

• GPS in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)