GPS

English

Proper noun

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

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

Noun

GPS (plural GPSes)

1. (cartography) Initialism of global positioning system (“satellite navigation system”).

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

2. Ellipsis of GPS receiver.

Derived terms

• GPS art
• GPS receiver

Translations

Global Positioning System

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全球定位系統 / 全球定位系统 (zh) (quánqiú dìngwèi xìtǒng)

• Danish: GPS (da) c
• Esperanto: tutmonda loktrova sistemo
• Finnish: GPS (fi)
• French: GPS (fr) m
• Galician: GPS m
• German: GPS (de) n
• Maori: pūnaha kimi taunga, PKT
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: GPS (no) m

• Polish: GPS (pl) m
• Portuguese: GPS (pt) m
• Russian: GPS (ru) m
• Spanish: GPS (es) m
• Swedish: GPS (sv)
• Thai: จีพีเอส
• Walloon: mostere-voye (wa) m (receiver), cir-moennaedje m (system)

Verb

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.

Further reading

• GPS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Galician

Noun

GPS m (invariable)

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System

   Synonym: sistema de posicionamento global

2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

   Synonym: navegador GPS

German

Etymology 1

Noun

GPS n (strong, genitive GPS, no plural)

1. GPS

Declension

Declension of GPS [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	GPS
genitive	eines	des	GPS
dative	einem	dem	GPS
accusative	ein	das	GPS

Further reading

• “GPS” in Duden online

Etymology 2

Proper noun

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

Declension

Declension of GPS [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	GPS
genitive	einer	der	GPS
dative	einer	der	GPS
accusative	eine	die	GPS

Polish

GPS

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English GPS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐi.piˈɛs/, /ɡjɛ.pɛˈɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: G‧P‧S

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of GPS

	singular	plural
nominative	GPS	GPS-y
genitive	GPS-u	GPS-ów
dative	GPS-owi	GPS-om
accusative	GPS	GPS-y
instrumental	GPS-em	GPS-ami
locative	GPS-ie	GPS-ach
vocative	GPS-ie	GPS-y

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^(key): /ˈxepese/ [ˈxe.pe.se]
• Rhymes: -epese

Noun

GPS m (plural GPS)

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System

   Synonym: sistema de posicionamiento global

2. (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

1. (cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System
2. (technology) GPS receiver, satnav

Declension

Declension of GPS

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	GPS	GPS
	definite	GPS:en	GPS:ens
plural	indefinite	GPS:er	GPS:ers
	definite	GPS:erna	GPS:ernas

References

• GPS in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)