0 present participle of hover --
1 to stay in one place in the air, usually by moving the wings quickly: --
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Inflation is hovering at three percent.
I could sense him behind me, hovering and building up the courage to ask me a question.
I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.
A hawk hovered in the sky, waiting to swoop down on its prey.
Mean nectar production rate versus mean hovering duration per hour (c).
Median hovering duration of the bats at the flowers was 320 ms (n = 1246 visits).
Though they had a relatively different set of participants, this poll also had a female participation rate hovering around fifteen per cent in 1998.
The canopy itself could be more ephemeral and transparent - possibly a lower lattice layer with a transparent layer of glass hovering above.
Hovering at a point enables effective observation of the target.
Thought can be compared to a hovering cloud which gushes a shower of words (p. 281; emphasis in original).
Consequently, the nectar resource is reserved only for hovering hummingbirds.
Moreover, separating attitude control from hovering control is effective for optimizing the controller, because control precision depends on attitude control precision.
