NOUN
- a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver
How To Use Global Positioning System In A Sentence
- There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
- Each patrol is also given a first-aid kit, a global positioning system compass, an astrocompass and a shortwave radio.
- Mostly they analyze data from seismometers deployed around the globe, as well as data from the two dozen satellites that make up the Global Positioning System.
- It is equipped with a global positioning system navigation system.
- Another form of uberveillance is the use of bracelets worn by dangerous prisoners which use global positioning systems to pinpoint their movements. Aftermath News
- Most recently, global positioning system units have given hikers their precise location by satellite.
- Parachuting supplies to CIA operatives working behind enemy lines is a tricky business, even in an age of Global Positioning Systems and spy-in-the-sky satellites. A Street Fight
- Inside is a guidance control unit with inertial navigation and global positioning systems.
- At the same time global positioning system technology allows the people off site to schedule work more efficiently. Times, Sunday Times
- Engineers and geodesists today would use the Global Positioning System or laser range-finding theodolites to do this sort of work.
