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Definition: BACKSIGHT |
BACKSIGHTNoun1. The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3. |
| Domain | Definition |
Hydrologic | A rod reading taken on a point of known elevation, a benchmark or a turning point. Backsights are added to the known elevation to arrive at the height of the instrument. With a known height of the instrument, the telescope can be used to determine the elevation of other points in the vicinity. (references) |
Mining | A. A sight or bearing on a previously established survey point (other than a closing or check point), taken in a backward direction b. A reading taken on a level rod held in its unchanged position on a survey point of previously determined elevation when the leveling instrument has been moved to a new position. It is used to determine the height of the instrument prior to making a foresight. Syn:plus sightAbbrev: BS. Ant: foresight. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BACKSIGHT |
| Specialty definitions using "BACKSIGHT": leveling practice. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Taking a backsight Level party of W. H. Burger. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| Language | Translations for "BACKSIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shenjestër. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обратно визиране, мерник (hindsight, peep sight). (various references) | |
Chinese | 回视. (various references) | |
Korean | 후시. (various references) | |
Manx | cooyl-vaghtane, cooylreayrt, cooyl-hroir. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acksightbay.(various references) | |
Russian | визирование назад, прицел (aim, breech-sight, rear sight, sight). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nišan (bead, gunpoint, hindsight, sight, target). (various references) | |
Swedish | återblick (flashback, retrospect, review). (various references) | |
Turkish | gez (hindsight, notch), geri gözlem. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зворотне візування, приціл (bead, hindsight, sight). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-h-i-k-s-t" | |
-2 letters: bhaktis. | |
-3 letters: batiks, bhakti, bights, habits, kitsch, schtik, shtick, thacks, thicks. | |
-4 letters: agist, aitch, backs, bahts, baith, baits, basic, batch, baths, batik, bight, bitch, chats, chias, chits, gaits, ghast, ghats, habit, hacks, haiks, hicks, ikats, khats, kiths, sahib, saith, shack, shtik, sight, stack, staig, stich, stick, tachs, tacks, thack, thick, ticks. | |
-5 letters: acts, aits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-g-h-i-k-s-t" | |
+1 letter: backlights. | |
+4 letters: backstitching, blacksmithing, switchbacking. | |
+5 letters: blacksmithings. | |
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