telescopic sight

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   gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight

   Synonymstelescope sight

   Broadergunsight

Questions about telescopic sight

What does telescopic sight mean?

telescopic sight means "gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight".

What is another word for telescopic sight?

Close synonyms include telescope sight. 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 telescopic sight a common word?

telescopic sight 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.