GPS is the satellite system that tells your phone exactly where you are. Turn on GPS, follow the GPS, lose GPS signal.
It works by timing signals from several satellites at once, and it is so precise that the clocks aboard have to be corrected for relativity or the position would drift by kilometres a day. It is run by the American military and free to use.
1noungpsThe satellite system that gives a position.
“The GPS in the car told us to turn left, straight into a field.”
gps is a navigation system.
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