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General dictionaries General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. backsight: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  2. backsight: Wordnik [home, info]
  3. backsight: Wiktionary [home, info]
  4. backsight: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Backsight, backsight: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  6. Backsight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  7. backsight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  8. Backsight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  9. backsight: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  10. backsight: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backsight: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backsight: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backsight: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (backsight)

Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

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