cross hairs

plural noun

1. two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight Also calledcross wires

Example Sentences

That means contractors, operations, maintenance costs, and weapons programs also are in the cross-hairs.

From The Daily Beast

A bright, slowly changing violet point on the cross-hairs of the aiming telescope.

From Project Gutenberg

He noted down the directions and set the cross hairs of his forward observer on Alpha Centauri.

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The pathway of the imaged point was controlled by means of the cross-hairs of the telescope.

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The cross-hairs of the scope sight centered almost exactly on the spot Altamont had estimated on the map.

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With the fine controls he centered the cross hairs of the eyepiece on the blazing object in the sky.

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