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  • noun Short for satellite navigation system.

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Examples

  • A raft of technical issues have to be addressed if Galileo is to become a fully functioning civil sat-nav service that, unlike military systems, gives guarantees to users over performance.

    Galileo project update Not a sheep 2008

  • The sat-nav venture came close to being cancelled last year when the private consortium selected to build and operate the system collapsed.

    Galileo project update Not a sheep 2008

  • Bruce Damer: it will go universal, become an essential tool, for example, could you imagine now not having always on net, phone, sat-nav maps and such?

    January 2010 2010

  • British taxi drivers have a 'sat-nav' system in their brains ...

    Coffee Break: Sept. 15 2008

  • A raft of technical issues have to be addressed if Galileo is to become a fully functioning civil sat-nav service that, unlike military systems, gives guarantees to users over performance.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • I'll still have plenty to offer, mind: I can program the sat-nav and fiddle with the iPod.

    Help me plan my American road trip 2010

  • Bruce Damer: it will go universal, become an essential tool, for example, could you imagine now not having always on net, phone, sat-nav maps and such?

    Full CNET Avatar Interview with Daniel Terdiman 2010

  • The sat-nav venture came close to being cancelled last year when the private consortium selected to build and operate the system collapsed.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • I think it is on the grounds that if any company required one of its employees to do a lot of driving to varied locations it would not be considered unreasonable for them to claim for a sat-nav.

    Navigation errors 2009

  • More reasonably, Waugh asks whether it is reasonable to charge the cost of the sat-nav to the taxpayer.

    Navigation errors 2009

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