homing device

1. 1.

   the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective

   Broadermechanism

   Part ofguided missile

Questions about homing device

What does homing device mean?

homing device means "the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective".

Is homing device a common word?

homing device is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.