cross wire

1. 1.

   either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration

   “he had the target in his cross hairs”

   Synonymscross hair

   Broaderline

   Part ofreticle

Questions about cross wire

What does cross wire mean?

cross wire means "either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration".

What is another word for cross wire?

Close synonyms include cross hair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cross wire a common word?

cross wire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.