GPS

English

Proper noun

GPS

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

   Synonyms: NavStar, Navstar

   Hypernyms: GPS/global positioning system, satellite navigation system

Coordinate terms

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

Noun

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.

Translations

Global Positioning System

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全球定位系統 (zh), 全球定位系统 (zh) (quánqiú dìngwèi xìtǒng)

• Danish: GPS c
• Esperanto: tutmonda loktrova sistemo
• Finnish: GPS (fi)
• French: GPS (fr) m
• Galician: GPS m
• German: GPS (de) n
• Maori: pūnaha kimi taunga, PKT

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: GPS (no) m

• Polish: GPS (pl) m
• Portuguese: GPS (pt) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: GPS (es) m
• Swedish: GPS (sv)
• Thai: จีพีเอส
• Walloon: mostere-voye (wa) m (receiver), cir-moennaedje m (system)

Verb

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.

Further reading

• GPS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

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Galician

Noun

GPS m (plural GPS)

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

Synonyms

• (Global Positioning System): sistema de posicionamento global
• (GPS receiver): navegador GPS

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German

Noun

GPS n (genitive GPS, no plural)

1. GPS

Declension

Declension of GPS (uncountable)

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	GPS
genitive	eines	des	GPS
dative	einem	dem	GPS
accusative	ein	das	GPS

Further reading

• “GPS” in Duden online

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Polish

Etymology

From English GPS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐiˈpʲi.ɛs/

Noun

GPS m inan

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

Declension

declension of GPS

	singular
nominative	GPS
genitive	GPS-u
dative	GPS-owi
accusative	GPS
instrumental	GPS-em
locative	GPS-ie
vocative	GPS-ie

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxepese/, [ˈxe.pe.se]

Noun

GPS m (plural GPS)

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System

   Synonym: sistema de posicionamiento global

2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

   Synonym: navegador GPS