Look up homing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homing may refer to: Guidance system, a device or group of devices used to navigate a ship, aircraft...

The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica), selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long...

Infrared homing is a passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly. Missiles...

Active radar homing (ARH) is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses...

Radar homing may refer to: Active radar homing Semi-active radar homing Radar lock-on This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

Retransmission homing, also called "track-via-missile" or "TVM", is a hybrid between command guidance, semi-active radar homing and active radar homing. The missile...

are two types of acoustic homing: passive acoustic homing and active acoustic homing. Objects using passive acoustic homing rely on detecting acoustic...

Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...

Wake homing is a torpedo guidance technique based on the wake trajectory left behind a moving target. The torpedo is fired to cross behind the stern of...

acoustic (homing) guidance systems, with the American Mark 24 mine and Mark 27 torpedo and the German G7es torpedo. Pattern-following and wake homing torpedoes...

sections. The guidance and homing systems are generally classified broadly into active, semi-active and passive. In active homing systems, the missile carries...

Semi-active radar homing (SARH) is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air...

Homing is the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas. This location may be a home territory or...

In telecommunications, the term multiple homing has the following meanings: In telephone systems, the connection of a terminal facility so that it can...

The homing endonucleases are a collection of endonucleases encoded either as freestanding genes within introns, as fusions with host proteins, or as self-splicing...

means of a laser beam, either beam riding guidance or semi-active laser homing (SALH). With this technique, a laser is kept pointed at the target and the...

and/or "mid-course updates" to get the missile close enough to use an active homing sensor. The concepts of air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles...

Homing is the phenomenon whereby cells migrate to the organ of their origin. By homing, transplanted hematopoietic cells are able to travel to and engraft...

War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Billy, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Broad Arrow, a Second World War homing pigeon...

Natal homing, or natal philopatry, is the homing process by which some adult animals that have migrated away from their juvenile habitats return to their...

Homing Head (67°48′S 67°16′W / 67.800°S 67.267°W / -67.800; -67.267) is a headland at the northeast side of Sally Cove on Horseshoe Island, off Graham...

First American ASW Acoustic Homing Torpedo S NAVY TORPEDOES by Frederick J Milford Part Four: WW II development of homing torpedoes 1940-1946 Blair, Clay...

launch of a semi-active radar homing missile (such as the AIM-7 Sparrow).: Fox two Indicates launch of an infrared homing missile (such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder)...

Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages. Pigeons are effective as messengers due to their natural homing abilities. The pigeons are...

R-27 is manufactured in infrared-homing (R-27T, R-27ET), semi-active radar homing (R-27R, R-27ER), and active-radar homing (R-27EA) versions. R-27 family...

Critics say that the increased size of routing tables needed to handle multi-homing in this way will overwhelm current router hardware. Proponents say that...

and AGM-114N metal augmented charge (MAC)—achieve pinpoint accuracy by homing in on a reflected laser beam aimed at the target. The General Atomics MQ-1...

Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically...

degrades performance. Sea-based radar systems, semi-active radar homing, active radar homing, weather radar, military aircraft, and radar astronomy rely on...

Schrödinger's Cat II: The Trick Top Hat (1980), and Schrödinger's Cat III: The Homing Pigeons (1981), each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum...