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

   Coordinate terms: Beidou, Galileo, GLONASS

   • 1992, S. Noguchi, H. Umeo, editors, Transputer/Occam Japan 4, page 137:

     Since then he has been an Consultant Engineer within INMOS, specialising in GPS and satcomms applications of the transputer.

   • 2017, Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga, Salvatore G. Garofalo, Spatial Intelligence […] , Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 64:

     While it is easy to dismiss GPS art as nothing more than the misuse of a system meant to provide information, the spatial intelligence required to create these works is something to admire (Farman, 2014).

   • 2022 September 20, Toby Donegan-Cross, “Runner creates amazing GPS art of a tiger, a bear and a T-Rex”, in The Sun‎^[1]:

     A TIGER, a bear and a T-Rex dinosaur are among the GPS art created by a runner.

GPS (countable and uncountable, plural GPSes)

1. (cartography) Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”).
   • 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:

     "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.

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

2. Ellipsis of GPS receiver.
3. Initialism of Goodpasture syndrome.

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

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

Borrowed from English GPS.

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑiːpʲiːe̞sɨ]

GPS(ジーピーエス) • (jī-pī-esu) 

1. (cartography) GPS

• “GPS”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “GPS” in Weblio Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈpies/ [d͡ʒiˈpi.es]

GPS

1. (Malaysian politics) initialism of Gabungan Parti Sarawak (“Sarawak Parties Alliance”)

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

Borrowed from English GPS.

GPS m (invariable)

1. (uncountable) GPS (global positioning system)
2. GPS receiver

   Synonym: recetor GPS

   • 2025 March 11, Pedro Zanrosso, “Guiados por GPS de coleira, bombeiros resgatam cachorro de dentro do Cânion Fortaleza, em Cambará do Sul; veja vídeo”, Pioneiro, in GZH‎^[3], Porto Alegre: Grupo RBS, archived from the original on 23 March 2025:

     Para o resgate, os bombeiros utilizaram técnicas de rapel e contaram com a ajuda de um GPS, instalado na coleira do animal.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

GPS f (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) initialism of guia de previdência social
   • 2023 December 21, Thais Tenher, “Aprenda como emitir a Guia da Previdência Social (GPS) no Meu INSS”, in Exame‎^[4], São Paulo, archived from the original on 8 August 2024:

     A guia da Previdência Social, também conhecida pela sigla GPS, é um velho conhecido do contribuinte brasileiro. O documento serve para o recolhimento das quantias referentes aos beneficiários do INSS.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “GPS”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “GPS”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “GPS”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• 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), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• 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:a (“track or mark with GPS”, verb)

• GPS in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)