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homing
1. Zoology relating to the ability to return home after travelling great distances
2. (of an aircraft, a missile, etc.) capable of guiding itself onto a target or to a specified point
homing [′hōm·iŋ]
(navigation)
A process in navigation by which the destination is approached by keeping some parameter constant.
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but never once does his sense of direction fail him--the homing instinct is supreme.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Straight as homing pigeons, the two made their way toward the ruin and desolation that had once been the center of their happy lives, and which was soon to be restored by the willing black hands of laughing laborers, made happy again by the return of the master and mistress whom they had mourned as dead.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Perhaps it was the homing instinct in him asserting itself that made the idea persist.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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