a device that provides direction to a target or destination
All the royal cars are fitted with electronic homing devices.
Even small missiles have built-in homing devices.
homing device in American English
noun
a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective
Word origin
[1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, boondoggle, cloverleaf, technical foul, uncertainty principle
Examples of 'homing device' in a sentence
homing device
They blackmail her into following the clues left behind that only she can decipher, giving her a homing device disguised as a silver heart.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It has taken humans 50,000 years to develop homing devices as good as that.