Global Positioning System
Example Sentences
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The global positioning system, for example, provides navigation services to the military as well as civilians.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2019
But you’d probably still be surprised at all the things that GPS—the global positioning system that underlies all of modern navigation—can do.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2019
The programs are like a global positioning system app on a smartphone — helpful but not perfect.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
The discovery of cells in the brain that act as the body's internal global positioning system, which won three scientists the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, opens an intriguing new a window onto dementia.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2014
That lead to a deeper understanding of how the brain, including ours, creates a map of the environment -- essentially an inner global positioning system, or GPS.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2014
