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homing meaning

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WHoming
  • Homing is the process of determining the location of something, sometimes the source of a transmission, and going to it.
  • More specifically, it may refer to:
  • Guidance system, a device or group of devices used to navigate a ship, aircraft, missile, rocket, satellite, or other craft
  • Homing (missile guidance)
  • Infrared homing, a passive missile guidance system which uses the emission from a target of infrared electromagnetic radiation
  • Semi-active radar homing, a common type of missile guidance system for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems

    Definition of homing in English Dictionary

  • VerbBFhomeSGhomesPT, PPhomedSUF-ing
    1. present participle of home.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • This is true Strength, whose chosen home is still The Soul of man , when with himself at one, His Being's End he strives but to fulfill In meek Lowheartedness.
        • I'd love to stay later, but my mother will throw a fit if I'm not home by 10.
        • He used the clues to home in on the source of the flames.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • She got ridiculously drunk last night and chucked up in the back of the minicab on the way home.
        • The kids sacked out in the back seat before we made it home.
        • She always had two spare Speedos for her swimming competitions away from home.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Verbs
        • Verb forms
          • Participles
            • Present participles
      Related Links:
      1. en homing pigeon
      2. en homing pigeons
      3. en homing instinct
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of homing for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "homing" is a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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