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sightlines

sightlines is the plural 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

Questions about sightlines

What is sightlines the plural of?
Sightlines is the plural of sightline.

Words near sightlines in the dictionary

  1. sightlessly
  2. sightlessness
  3. sightlier
  4. sightliest
  5. sightline
  6. sightlines
  7. sightliness
  8. sightloss
  9. sightly
  10. sightproof
  11. sightread

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