Meanings
nounboresight (plural boresights)
plural boresights
- The optical axis of a directional antenna.
- engineeringA device mounted along the bore axis of a gun barrel for purposes of aligning the barrel with the gun's sights.
verbboresight (third-person singular simple present boresights, present participle boresighting, simple past and past participle boresighted)
present singular third person boresights · participle present boresighting · participle past boresighted · past boresighted
- engineeringTo use a boresight to align a gun barrel with the gun's sights.
A holiday spirit prevailed throughout the task group on these special days; stationkeeping was a bit more lax, and gun crews were off-duty so that the gunners could lubricate, adjust, and boresight their guns[…]
2022 December 21, Drachinifel, quoting M. Dick van Orden, 11:52 from the start, in Typhoon Cobra - When the weather does more damage than the enemy, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025
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APA
boresight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boresight
MLA
“boresight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boresight. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boresight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boresight.
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