line of sight

English

Noun

line of sight (plural lines of sight)

1. A straight line along which an observer has a clear view.

   in my line of sight

2. (weaponry) The line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.

Synonyms

• sightline

Derived terms

• VLOS

Translations

A straight line along which an observer has a clear view

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 視線／视线 (zh) (shìxiàn)

• Danish: sigtelinje (da) c
• Finnish: näkölinja (fi)
• French: ligne de mire (fr) f
• German: Sichtlinie (de) f (but this is only idiomatic in technical language and no equivalent is idiomatic in the colloquial), Sichtverbindung f (for this term an occasional or possible connection may suffice), Sichtweite (de) f, Blickweite f (this tendentially presupposes broadness rather than a line, i.e. field of vision)
• Italian: linea di mira
• Japanese: 視線 (ja) (しせん, shisen), 目線 (ja) (mesen)
• Polish: linia wzroku f
• Portuguese: campo de visão m
• Romanian: linie de vedere f, câmp de vedere n, linie vizuală (ro) f
• Russian: луч обзо́ра m (luč obzóra), ли́ния обзо́ра f (línija obzóra), ли́ния визи́рования f (línija vizírovanija)
• Swedish: siktlinje c, syftningslinje c, syftlinje c

See also

• visual field
• field of vision
• field of view

References

• “line”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.