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line of sight

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noun
  1. Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  2. Astronomy. an imaginary line from an observer to a celestial body, coincident with the path traveled by light rays receivedfrom the body.
  3. Radio. a straight line connecting two points sufficiently high and near one another so that the line is entirely above the surface of the earth.
  4. Ophthalmology. line of vision.
  5. sightline.

Origin of line of sight

First recorded in 1550–60
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Related Words for line of sight

beeline, view, sightline

Examples from the Web for line of sight

Historical Examples of line of sight

  • He started the fuel pumps winding up, and swung the ship to point normal to the line-of-sight to the jammer.

    Pushbutton War

    Joseph P. Martino

  • I'm inclined like everybody else to consider perception on a line-of-sight basis instead of on a sort of all-around grasp.

    Highways in Hiding

    George Oliver Smith

  • There were other instruments in other line-of-sight positions, very far away.

    Operation Terror

    William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for line of sight

line of sight

noun
  1. the straight line along which an observer looks or a beam of radiation travels
  2. ophthalmol another term for line of vision
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