Look up: homing


  1. homing
    [adj] - orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=homing

  2. Homing
    To return accurately to the place of origin, e.g. the return of salmon, after migration to the sea, to the same river in which they originally hatched.
    Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryH.html

  3. Homing
    Hom'ing adjective Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/56

  4. 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 distanc...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/56

  5. homing
    adjective orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; `the homing instinct`; `a homing beacon`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=homing

  6. Homing
    • (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons. • (p.a.) Home-returning.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/homing/

  7. homing
    ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances. The major navigational clues used by ... [6 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/65

  8. homing
    the resetting of a sequential interrogating device to an invariant origin of sequence
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=714-15-13

  9. Homing
    [biology] Homing is the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas. This location may be either a home territory, or a breeding spot. ==Uses== Homing abilities can be used to find the way back to home in a migration. It is often used in re...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_(biology)

  10. Homing
    The ability of a salmon or steelhead to correctly identify and return to their natal stream, following maturation at sea.
    Found op http://www.streamnet.org/glossary.html

  11. homing
    1) Kind of pigeon 2) Like some pigeons 3) Orientating 4) Orienting 5) Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/homing/1

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