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Comment Generification (Score 1) 59

Yet another example of generification. Not so long ago, GPS specifically meant a single US satellite navigation service. Nowadays it seems to mean any such service (including Galileo and GLONASS), the Iridium satellite service (which is communication not navigation) and even the humble latitude/longitude/altitude triplet which has been used in navigation for centuries.

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