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GPS

From Steven Munatones, for About.com

Definition: (acronym for Global Positioning System) a global system of U.S. navigational satellites developed to provide precise positional and velocity data and global time synchronization for air, sea, and land travel.
Examples: The race director calculated the location of the turn buoys on the course by using GPS.

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