# GPS
## English
### Proper noun

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

#### Coordinate terms

* GLONASS (the Russian satellite navigation system)
* BeiDou / Beidou (the Chinese satellite navigation system)
* Galileo (the European Union satellite navigation system)

### Noun

GPS (plural GPSes)
* (cartography) Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”).
    Hyponyms: Navstar/NavStar/GPS/Global Positioning System, BeiDou/Beidou, Galileo, GLONASS
* Ellipsis of GPS receiver.

#### Derived terms

* GPS art
* GPS receiver

#### Translations
### Verb

GPS (third-person singular simple present GPSes, present participle GPSing, simple past and past participle GPSed)
* (transitive) To locate something using a GPS system.

### Further reading

* GPS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* GSP, PGS, PGs, PSG, Pgs, SPG, pgs, pgs., sGP

## Galician
### Noun

GPS m (invariable)
* (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System
    Synonym: sistema de posicionamento global
* (technology) GPS receiver, satnav
    Synonym: navegador GPS

## German
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

GPS n (strong, genitive GPS, no plural)
* GPS

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “GPS” in Duden online

### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

GPS f (proper noun, genitive GPS)
* (Swiss politics) Initialism of Grüne Partei der Schweiz (“Green Party of Switzerland”).
    Coordinate terms: SVP, SP, FDP, GLP, EVP, EDU

##### Declension
## Japanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English GPS.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [d͡ʑiːpʲiːe̞sɨ]

### Noun

GPS(ジーピーエス) • (jī-pī-esu)
* (cartography) GPS

### References

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English GPS.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʐi.piˈɛs/, /ɡjɛ.pɛˈɛs/
* Rhymes: -ɛs
* Syllabification: G‧P‧S

### Noun

GPS m inan (indeclinable)
* (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)
* (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

#### Declension

or
Indeclinable.

### Further reading

* GPS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* GPS in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* GPS in PWN's encyclopedia

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxepese/ [ˈxe.pe.se]
* Rhymes: -epese

### Noun

GPS m (plural GPS)
* (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System
    Synonym: sistema de posicionamiento global
* (technology) GPS receiver, satnav
    Synonym: navegador GPS

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* gps

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English GPS. First attested in the mid-1980s, probably.

### Noun

GPS c
* (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System
* (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ GPS in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* GPS in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)