global positioning system

See also Global Positioning System

English

Etymology

From the proper noun Global Positioning System.

Noun

global positioning system (plural global positioning systems)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• GPS, global navigation satellite system

Translations

system determining precise location based on signals received from satellites

• Arabic: نظام التموضع العالمي (ar) (niZaam al-tamáwDu3 al-3alamiy) m, جي بي إس (ar) (jii bii 'es) m
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: satelliittipaikannusjärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système de positionnement par satellites (fr) m
• German: Globales Navigationssatellitensystem (de) n

• Greek: Παγκόσμιο Σύστημα Θεσιθεσίας (el) (paŋgózmio sístima θesiθesías) n
• Japanese: グローバル・ポジショニング・システム (ja) (gurōbaru-pojishoningu-shisutemu), 全地球測位システム (ja) (zenchikyū sokui shisutemu)
• Russian: GPS (ru) (GPS) f, Джи-Пи-эС (ru) (Dži-Pi-eS) f, глобальная система позиционирования (ru) (globál'naja sistéma pozicionírovanija) f

See also

• Global positioning system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia