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sight line

sight line is the alternative form of sightline.

Meaning of sightline

Noun

sightline (plural sightlines)

  1. A line between an observer or a piece of optical equipment and an object of interest; line of sight.
    • This area, referred to as the fly loft, should typically be two and a half times taller than the proscenium opening in order to fly the scenery above the vertical sightlines of the first row of the audience.2015, Jeromy Hopgood, Dance Production: Design and Technology, page 44

Forms of sight line

pluralsight lines

Questions about sight line

What is sight line the alternative form of?
Sight line is the alternative form of sightline.

Words near sight line in the dictionary

  1. sight glass
  2. sight glasses
  3. sight hound
  4. sight impaired
  5. sight in
  6. sight line
  7. sight radii
  8. sight radius
  9. sight radiuses
  10. sight read
  11. sight reading

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