TELESCOPIC SIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telescopic sight mean? 

• TELESCOPIC SIGHT (noun)
  The noun TELESCOPIC SIGHT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TELESCOPIC SIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELESCOPIC SIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

telescope sight; telescopic sight

Hypernyms ("telescopic sight" is a kind of...):

gun-sight; gunsight (a sight used for aiming a gun)

 Context examples 

Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)