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English
Etymology
under- + sight
Noun
undersight (usually uncountable, plural undersights)
- (uncommon) Inverse oversight; sousveillance at a high level. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Coordinate term: oversight
Verb
undersight (third-person singular simple present undersights, present participle undersighting, simple past and past participle undersighted)
- (transitive, uncommon) To misadjust the sights of a gun so that the projectile falls short of its intended target.