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homing

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhəʊmɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈhoʊmɪŋ//

That self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of homepresent participle and gerund of home

adjective

  1. 1

    That self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.

    Watch out for the boss's last attack — the blue bullets are homing.

  2. 2

    Fitted with a guiding electronic device that allows it to find and hit a target.

Forms

comparative
more homing
superlative
most homing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).