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HOMING TORPEDO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homing torpedo mean?
• HOMING TORPEDO (noun)
The noun HOMING TORPEDO has 1 sense:
1. a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)
Familiarity information: HOMING TORPEDO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("homing torpedo" is a kind of...):
torpedo (armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target)
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