Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective
Usage examples of "homing device".
But it sailed to earth in a neat glide-the homing device having guided its flight perfectly.
Rom moved forward, to get a better view of the jury-rigged homing device, Quark presumed.
She only found us that time because of a homing device on the droid, but we got rid of that finally.
Not many people would have known what this was, but I'd seen one betore-- a transistorized homing device for locating the direction of a radio signal, such as emitted by the _Sarah_ device on American space capsules which enables searchers to locate it once it has landed in the sea.
A homing device is on the smuggler ship, which will lead the Death Star to the Rebel base and secure the Sith's ultimate victory over the Jedi, the Republic, and the galaxy all in one day.
Quite a considerable galactic distance from the Eosi home planet and its expanding sphere of influence, the homing device arrived in the slot designed to receive it on the huge moon installation where such devices were processed.
Using the house as a heading now, he kept his eyes open for Imprimans, checking the homing device only from time to time.
Leaving the gas to disperse, he returned to the gate-programming board in the main lab to learn the date and time to which Heinrich Kokoschka's homing device had brought him.
As it came slowly into range he could make out its smooth, oblong shape and a circular device on one end---an active radar-homing device or infrared seeker?