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seeker [′sē·kər]
(ordnance)
Any moving object, especially a missile, that finds its target by means of a device attracted to light, heat, radio waves, sound, or other radiation emitted by the target.
The device used in such an object.
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AN Office Seeker whom the President had ordered out of Washington was watering the homeward highway with his tears.
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With bated breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was known).
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Near this miserable Seeker sat a little elderly personage, wearing a high-crowned hat, shaped somewhat like a crucible.
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