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单词 homing device
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homing device
3. (In sense of home v. 5a); also attributive, esp. in homing device, an automatic device for guiding aircraft, missiles, etc.
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1923 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 61 803/2 As this method seriously affects the compass and takes a machine off its course, wing coils are only used for ‘homing’, i.e. flying along a radius towards a transmitting station, thus enabling the aircraft to return to its base.
1933 Bureau of Standards Jrnl. Res. 11 740 In these tests the direction finder was used as a homing device.
1940 Illustr. London News 197 567 (caption) Direction-finding radio compass for work in connection with loop aerial and ‘homing’ beam.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War iv. 178 Another..success was gained against the acoustic homing torpedo.
1951 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 27 Homing aids, systems designed to guide an aircraft to an aerodrome or carrier.
1955 Times 28 June 8/6 There are..other means of detecting a camouflaged operations centre, such as high altitude vertical photography and ‘homing’ on to radio transmissions.
1957 Oxf. Mail 20 Aug. 1/4 After launching, the weapon is guided to the target by a special homing head which picks up the ground radar beams reflected back from the enemy.
1962 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) vi. 4 Homing guidance, a system wherein devices built into a missile enable it to detect and steer itself towards, or to intercept, a target.
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