lock onto

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   to find the thing that is being attacked and follow it

   A genetic guidance system that can lock onto a mark a half a mile away.

In the movies · 8

• They've locked onto us. Go left. Left.The Mighty1998
• Did you have any trouble locking onto it this time?Videodrome1983
• Griot Princess there is a surveillance drone locked onto you How highBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever2022
• to lock onto this one for double the impactThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.2015
• A genetic guidance system that can lock onto a mark a half a mile away.X-Men: Days of Future Past2014
• Lock onto the strongest power source. It should be the power generator.Return of the Jedi1983
• - We'll lock onto its coordinates. -And for my next trick...Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor2013
• - - Must be why the professor had trouble locking onto him.X22003

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