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Definition: Cross Hair |
Cross HairNoun1. Either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration; "he had the target in his cross hairs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Cross HairSynonym: cross wire (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cross Hair |
| Specialty definitions using "cross hair": Engineer's Level. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
counter cross hair strike | 9 |
cross hair | 9 |
cross hair half life | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crosshair. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-o-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: corsairs. | |
-2 letters: charros, corsair, sirrahs. | |
-3 letters: across, chairs, charro, charrs, chiros, chirrs, choirs, crasis, crissa, ichors, orchis, rachis, scoria, shirrs, sirrah, sirras. | |
-4 letters: arris, arsis, carrs, chair, chaos, charr, chars, chiao, chias, chiro, chirr, choir, coirs, coria, crash, crass, cross, hairs, hoars, horas, ichor, oasis, ohias, orach, orcas, orris, ossia, roach, roars, saris, saros. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-o-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: crosshairs. | |
+2 letters: franchisors, orchardists. | |
+3 letters: chairpersons, chiaroscuros, choirmasters, chrysarobins, curatorships, gastrotrichs, harpsichords. | |
+4 letters: arthroscopies, chiaroscurist, discographers, stratospheric. | |
+5 letters: archbishoprics, chiaroscurists, cochairpersons, copartnerships, harpsichordist, orchestrations, trichromatisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 6F 73 73 48 61 69 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011 00100000 01001000 01100001 01101001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r o s s   H a i r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 006F 0073 0073 0048 0061 0069 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3784818585242677584 |
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