GPSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

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: Beidou, Galileo, GLONASS

   • 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.

名詞

GPS (countable and uncountable, plural GPSes)

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

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

   • 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:

     "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.

2. Ellipsis of GPS receiver.
3. Initialism of Goodpasture syndrome.

派生語

動詞

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

アナグラム

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