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| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | 1. The straight line between the eye of an observer and the observed object or point. Also called optical path. 2. Any straight line between one point and another, or extending out from a particular point.3. In radio, a direct propagation path that does not go below the radio horizon. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A characteristic of some open-air transmission technologies where the area between a transmitter and a receiver must be clear and unobstructed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The sighting or pointing line of a telescope, defined by the optical center of the objective and the intersection of crosshairs.See also:line of collimation. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The unobstructed line from the observer to the target needed to observe wayside instructions and obstructions in time to respond with the correct driving action. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Line Of SightSynonym: line of vision (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Line Of Sight |
| English words defined with "line of sight": collimate, collimation ♦ Dispart ♦ Horizontal line, Horopter ♦ Principal ray ♦ Vertical plane, Visual ray. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "line of sight": bomb sighting systems, buddy system ♦ celestial triangle, CELL CLEANER, collimation line, cross hairs, cross lines ♦ direction cosine, double stars ♦ full-width bifocal ♦ global positioning system ♦ hair cross, height of instrument ♦ indirect visible area, indirectly visible area ♦ leveling rod ♦ navigational triangle, Navstar GPS ♦ optical double star, optical line of sight, optical path ♦ physical double star, proper motion, PZX triangle ♦ radial motion ♦ self-reading staff, slightly screened area, space motion, striding level ♦ target rod, TWITCHELL OPERATOR ♦ whistling meteor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler with a clean line of sight well, pack your bags, boys. (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Showing how line of sight clears recorder with inclined tripod Mechanized leveling with velocipede Party of J. D. Crichton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| 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 |
line of sight | 178 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "line of sight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | synsvidde, sigtelinie, oversigtslinie, oversigt (Briefing, intension, schema, scheme, sight zone, splay), bliklinie (visual line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | LOS,afkorting van line of sight, linea visus (visual line), linea visualis (visual line), zicht (sickle, sight, view), richting (direction, tendency), gezichtsbereik, gezichtsas (visual axis, visual line), direct-zichtverbinding, bliklijn (visual line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tähtäyslinja, tähtäysakseli, näkemä (unseeing, unseen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ligne visuelle (visual line), ligne de visée (pointing line), en visibilité directe, champ visuel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ziellinie (finishing line), Visierlinie (sight axis), visierachse (sight axis), Sichtweite (visibility), in direkter Sichtweite, Foveolarstrahl (visual line), fluchtlinie (alignment), blickrichtung (outlook), Blicklinie (visual line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκοπευτικός άξονας, σκοπευτική γραμμή, γραμμή οπτικής επαφής, ευθεία οπτικής επαφής, απόσταση ορατότητος, οπτική γραμμή (visual line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nézővonal, látótengely, látósugár, irányvonal (course line, indicated course line, line, line of bearing, line of conduct, policy, trend, zero alignment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | linea di veduta, distanza di visibilità. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inelay ofay ightsay linha visual (visual line), linha de vista, linha de visada, distância de visibilidade. (various references) línea visual (visual line), línea de mira (sight axis), con visibilidad directa, campo visual (field of view, field of vision, visual field). (various references) siktsträcka, siktlinje (pointing line). (various references) görüş mesafesi (eyeshot, visibility), bakış açısı (eye, feeling, line of vision, outlook, standpoint, view point, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: nightlifes. | |
-2 letters: hosteling, nightlife. | |
-3 letters: feltings, fileting, fishline, fleishig, fleshing, foisting, heisting, histogen, hoisting, holstein, hotlines, infights, inflight, lightens, lignites, lingiest, lionfish, lithoing, neoliths, nighties, notifies, shieling, shifting, stifling, tilefish, tinfoils. | |
-4 letters: elision, eloigns, english, entoils, eoliths, ethions, felting, filings, finites, fishing, fishnet, fisting, flights, fliting, foiling, glisten, hefting, heiling, hilting, histing, histone, hogties. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: fortnightlies. | |
+3 letters: electrofishing. | |
+4 letters: electrofishings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6E 65 4F 66 53 69 67 68 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i n e   O f   S i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 006E 0065 004F 0066 0053 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467580712497225375737486 |
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