line of flight

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   the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air

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Questions about line of flight

What does line of flight mean?

line of flight means "the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air".

Is line of flight a common word?

line of flight 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.