sight setting

1. 1.

   the adjustment of a gunsight for elevation and windage on a particular range under favorable light conditions

   Broadergunsight

   Narrowerzero

Questions about sight setting

What does sight setting mean?

sight setting means "the adjustment of a gunsight for elevation and windage on a particular range under favorable light conditions".

Is sight setting a common word?

sight setting 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.