GUIDANCE DEVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guidance device mean? 

• GUIDANCE DEVICE (noun)
  The noun GUIDANCE DEVICE has 1 sense:

1. a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile)

  Familiarity information: GUIDANCE DEVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUIDANCE DEVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

guidance device; guidance system

Hypernyms ("guidance device" is a kind of...):

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guidance device"):

JDAM; Joint Direct Attack Munition (a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs)

Holonyms ("guidance device" is a part of...):

guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)