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Global Positioning System

Global Positioning System definition - hacker
Gives the exact location of someone or some place. The location is based on information transmitted from a constellation of 24 satellites.

See Also: Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS).

Further Readings: Navtech Seminars and GPS Supply, Inc. Glossary of Terms. [Online, 2004.] Navtech Seminars and GPS Supply, Inc. Website. http://www.navtechgps.com/glossary.asp.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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