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bore sight

bore sight noun: an optical device, mounted on or near the end of a firearm's barrel, used to align the sights with the bore.

Noun

bore sight (plural bore sights)

  1. An optical device, mounted on or near the end of a firearm's barrel, used to align the sights with the bore.
  2. A dummy cartridge containing a small battery-operated laser, used to align the sights.

Verb

bore sight (third-person singular simple present bore sights, present participle bore sighting, simple past and past participle bore sighted)

  1. To align the sights and aiming point of a firearm using a bore sight optical tool.

bore sight meaning in Tamil

bore sight in Tamil

துளைக் காட்சி

Forms of bore sight

Noun
pluralbore sights
Verb
third-person singular presentbore sights
present participlebore sighting
past participlebore sighted
pastbore sighted

Questions about bore sight

What does bore sight mean?
Bore sight means an optical device, mounted on or near the end of a firearm's barrel, used to align the sights with the bore.
What is bore sight in Tamil?
Bore sight in Tamil is துளைக் காட்சி. See Bore sight meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bore sight?
Bore sight can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of bore sight?
The plural of bore sight is bore sights.

Words near bore sight in the dictionary

  1. bore off
  2. bore off from
  3. bore on
  4. bore oneself
  5. bore out
  6. bore sight
  7. bore sighted
  8. bore sighting
  9. bore sights
  10. bore the brunt
  11. bore the scars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bore sight (page history and authors); bore sight (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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