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# gps

«gps» in Mova's school dictionary: **Abbreviation of Global Positioning System: a system using…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (GPS — abbreviation, usually uncountable; a GPS, GPSs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Abbreviation of Global Positioning System: a system using satellites to show exactly where you are on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#m1)

2) A device or app that uses this to give directions: Turn on the GPS. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life cars and phones use GPS for maps and directions; in science and geography GPS uses signals from satellites to find latitude and longitude; in safety lessons GPS helps rescuers find lost walkers. Phrases: «GPS tracker», «turn on the GPS», «GPS coordinates».

### examples

- The GPS told us to turn left at the lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x1)
- Hikers use GPS so they don't get lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x2)
- The phone's GPS showed our location on the map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x3)
- GPS works using satellites in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x4)
- The dog has a GPS tracker on its collar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x5)
- Rescuers used GPS coordinates to find the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/#x6)

### note

Written in capitals: GPS. Say each letter «G-P-S». «A GPS» (not «an»), because G starts with a «jee» sound. Sometimes called «the sat nav» in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

### In the corpora

- [Scientists put small GPS trackers on storks and found they use the same routes as their parents and stop at the same places.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/16/)
- [Today satellites measure plate movement directly: GPS stations show Europe and North America moving apart about 2.5 cm a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/15/)
- [A drone flies with four or more small rotors spinning at different speeds, and some hold their place in the air using GPS.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones/19/)
- [GPS works like a game of listening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/4/)
- [Each GPS satellite keeps perfect time with an atomic clock and keeps calling out the time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gps» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gps/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.