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Examples of Global Positioning System in a Sentence
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While taking a road trip, looking for that hot new restaurant or looking for your new office building, what tool has come in handy more than a Global Positioning System (GPS)?
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
The aviation industry generally uses one Global Positioning System frequency for satellite navigation, but there are backup technologies for when signals are lost.
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Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1973, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of Global Positioning System was
in 1973
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“Global Positioning System.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Global%20Positioning%20System. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
Kids Definition
Global Positioning System
noun
: GPS
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