of+the+sight+or+vision

  • 111Iron sight — Sight picture through iron sights of an H K MP5 submachine gun. The annular shroud around the front post sight is aligned with the rear peep sight to ensure the weapon is properly trained. Iron sights are a system of shaped alignment markers… …

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  • 112Enlightenment I (The French): science, materialism and determinism — The French Enlightenment I: science, materialism and determinism Peter Jimack The French Enlightenment is not just a convenient label devised by historians of philosophy, and the thinkers to be discussed in this chapter and the next were for the… …

    History of philosophy

  • 113sight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vision, eyesight; view, vista, scene; appearance, aspect, look; spectacle, display; visibility; aim, observation; eyesore (see ugliness). at sight II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The power of seeing] Syn.… …

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  • 114sight — sightable, adj. sighter, n. /suyt/, n. 1. the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision. 2. an act, fact, or instance of seeing. 3. one s range of vision on some specific occasion: Land is in sight. 4. a view;… …

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  • 115sight — /saɪt / (say suyt) noun 1. the power or faculty of seeing; vision. 2. the act or fact of seeing. 3. range of vision: in sight of land. 4. a view; glimpse. 5. mental view or regard. 6. something seen or to be seen; spectacle: the sights of the… …

  • 116vision — /ˈvɪʒən / (say vizhuhn) noun 1. the act of seeing with the eye; the power, faculty, or sense of sight. 2. the act or power of perceiving what is not actually present to the eye, whether by some supernatural endowment or by natural intellectual… …

  • 117Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… …

    History of philosophy

  • 118sight — n 1. vision, eyesight, eyes. 2. range or field of vision, eyeshot, eyereach, ken, view; gaze, look; inspection, scrutiny. 3. glimpse, brief look, look, glance, Fr. apercu, Scot. glisk, Fr. coup d oeil, Inf. once over, Inf. looksee, Sl. gander,… …

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  • 119vision purple — Visual Vis u*al, a. [L. visualis, from visus a seeing, sight: cf. F. visuel. See {Vision}.] 1. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. [1913 Webster] The air, Nowhere so clear,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 120sight — [[t]saɪt[/t]] n. 1) phl the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision 2) the act or fact of seeing 3) one s range of vision on some specific occasion: Land is in sight[/ex] 4) a view; glimpse 5) mental… …

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