heat-seeking

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ˈheat-ˌseeking adjective PMWa heat-seeking weapon is able to find and move towards the hot gases from an aircraft or rocket and destroy it 〔武器〕热自导引的，跟踪热源的

Examples from the Corpus

heat-seeking• Tests of the tiny organs show that they respond to infrared light by swelling slightly, triggering heat-seeking behavior.• Police drafted armed officers into the village and called in a helicopter with heat-seeking equipment.• And Buchanan goes after it like a heat-seeking missile.• He was like a heat-seeking missile.• The only alternative is a heat-seeking missile.• Not unless they had radar or heat-seeking missiles, which they didn't.

ˈheat-ˌseeking adjectiveChineseSyllable

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ˈheat-ˌseeking

adjective
a heat-seeking weapon is able to find and move towards the hot gases from an aircraft or rocket and destroy it

heat-seeking

BrE

/ˈhiːt siːkɪŋ/

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NAmE

/ˈhiːt siːkɪŋ/

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adjective

[only before noun]

(of a weapon 武器) that moves towards the heat coming from the aircraft, etc. that it is intended to hit and destroy 热自导引的；跟踪热源的

◆heat-seeking missiles热自导引导弹