English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van GPS is Global Positioning System. Dit is 'n satelliet-gebaseerde navigasiestelsel wat gebruikers in staat stel om hul presiese ligging te bepaal en beweging na te spoor. Die GPS-stelsel word deur die regering van die Verenigde State bedryf en bestaan uit 'n netwerk van satelliete wat om die aarde wentel, grondbeheerstasies en GPS-ontvangers wat in baie toestelle soos slimfone, motors en horlosies gevind kan word. Die stelsel voorsien gebruikers van akkurate inligting oor hul ligging, spoed en rigting, en word wyd gebruik vir navigasie-, kartering- en opsporingsdoeleindes.

Synonyms

  1. global positioning system

Sentence Examples

  1. One year, the entire geology class had pitched in to give me a state of the art GPS for Christmas, which had left me mortified.
  2. He collected six small emergency blankets made of reflective Mylar, two hunting knives, two more portable solar panels from where Annie had found hers, a handheld GPS that looked like it might plug into the panels, two winter jackets, two sleeping bags, seven candles, packs of waterproof matches, fistfuls of fleece hats.
  3. When he made it to Palm Tree Crescent the GPS sounded again.
  4. I squealed away from the hotel, and hit the convenient GPS on the dash.
  5. My orientation was way off and, without the GPS, we had no sense of location.
  6. Heather had brought the GPS coordinates furnished by the magnetometer, so they located the place in the field down to the last square inch.
  7. Her attendant programmed that address into the GPS.
  8. Hunting knives, GPS systems, and one-eyed night-vision devices.
  9. GPS is creating a blind faith that it knows best, sending people driving into rivers and lakes, even when the obstacle is right before their eyes.
  10. Mason could barely believe his luck as he climbed back into the Mustang and punched the zip code into the GPS.