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Sighting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of catching sight of something, especially something unusual or searched for: a sighting of a whale in the harbor; a reported sighting of a UFO.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for

v. Present participle of sight.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

a. & n. from sight, v. t.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of observing

Word Usage

"The _sighting notch_ in the slide with the rear sight leaf down, is the same height as is the sighting in the drift slide when the rear sight leaf is raised and set at 530 yards."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

observance observation watching

Variant

sight

Hyponym

landfall

Verb Stem

sight

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

benighting biting citing delighting exciting fighting igniting inciting indicting inviting