Definition of Homing. Meaning of Homing. Synonyms of Homing

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Definition of Homing

Homing
Homing Hom"ing, p.a. Home-returning. Homing pigeon, a pigeon trained to return home from a distance. Homing pigeons are used for sending back messages or for flying races. By carrying the birds away and releasing them at gradually increasing distances from home, they may be trained to return with more or less certainty and promptness from distances up to four or five hundred miles. If the distance is increased much beyond this, the birds are unable to cover it without stopping for a prolonged rest, and their return becomes doubtful. Homing pigeons are not bred for fancy points or special colors, but for strength, speed, endurance, and intelligence or homing instinct.
Homing
Homing Hom"ing, a. Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Meaning of Homing from wikipedia

- Look up homing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homing may refer to: Guidance system, a device or group of devices used to navigate a ship, aircraft...
- The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica), selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long...
- Infrared homing is a p****ive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly. Missiles...
- Active radar homing (ARH) is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses...
- Homing is the phenomenon whereby cells migrate to the organ of their origin. By homing, transplanted hematopoietic cells are able to travel to and engraft...
- Wake homing is a torpedo guidance technique based on the wake trajectory left behind a moving target. The torpedo is fired to cross behind the stern of...
- Semi-active radar homing (SARH) is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air...
- Natal homing, or natal philopatry, is the homing process by which some adult animals that have migrated away from their juvenile habitats return to their...
- acoustic (homing) guidance systems, with the American Mark 24 mine and Mark 27 torpedo and the German G7es torpedo. Pattern-following and wake-homing torpedoes...
- Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specialized, trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...