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English
Noun
line of sight (plural lines of sight)
- A straight line along which an observer has a clear view.
in my line of sight
- (weaponry) The line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.
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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
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