the abbreviation for ‘global positioning system’ (a system by which signals are sent from satellites to a special device, used to show the position of a person or thing on the surface of the earth very accurately) The drivers all have GPS in the van. She switched on the GPS system before she left the airport. compare satnav Wordfindermapcompass, globe, GPS, grid, key, latitude, map, navigate, reference, scale Oxford Collocations DictionaryGPS is used before these nouns: antenna, navigation, receiver, … See full entry
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