Many civilian applications use one or more of GPS's three basic components: absolute location, relative movement, and time transfer.

Surveying: Surveyors use absolute locations to make maps and determine property boundaries.

In this scheme, two different segment/offset pairs can point at a single absolute location.

His laugh, this time, came from an absolute location, the door of the billiard room.

Grid: A pattern of lines on a chart or map, such as those representing latitude and longitude, which helps determine absolute location.

That absolute time didn't exist any more than absolute location.

Local surroundings, local calendars, local day length-they all meant far more than absolute location.

It will also, according to one of the creators of the technology, fix "their absolute location on the face of the earth."

Support components are more likely to be adjustable than locating components, and normally do not press tightly on the workpiece or provide absolute location.

A landlocked municipality, its absolute location is between 121 32' to 121 41' longitude East and 17 14' to 17 26' latitude north.