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  • Thumbnail for Iron sights
    'aperture sights', which use a circular hole. Nearly all handguns, as well as most civilian, hunting, and police long guns, feature open sights. By contrast...
    43 KB (5,689 words) - 13:09, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diopter sight
    small hole (aperture), and is placed close in front of the shooter's aiming eye. Through this small hole the shooter can view the front sight component(s)...
    10 KB (1,361 words) - 14:56, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coupling nut
    coupling nuts, for joining two different size threads; sight hole coupling nuts, which have a sight hole for observing the amount of engagement; and coupling...
    3 KB (302 words) - 00:08, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telescopic sight
    A telescopic sight, commonly called a scope informally, is an optical sighting device based on a refracting telescope. It is equipped with some form of...
    86 KB (10,871 words) - 05:04, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for MacAdam Shield Shovel
    length. Unique to the shield-shovel was the inclusion of a 3.5 by 2 inch sight-hole in the blade. The shovel was intended to be used as a shield by folding...
    5 KB (747 words) - 23:19, 24 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hole
    A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful...
    23 KB (2,849 words) - 16:04, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for .577/450 Martini–Henry
    by .5 in (13 mm) with a .004 in brass strengthening strip with a small sight hole punched in the outer coil as a visual check that the strip was correctly...
    18 KB (2,194 words) - 01:10, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supermassive black hole
    A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions...
    104 KB (11,045 words) - 20:41, 21 November 2024
  • In fiction, a plot hole, plothole, or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's...
    5 KB (568 words) - 15:26, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sagittarius A*
    abbreviated as Sgr A* (/ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr/ SADGE-AY-star), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located...
    73 KB (7,650 words) - 14:06, 19 November 2024
  • The former featured a flexible rear tang sight mounted behind the hammer and the latter had the sight hole plugged. Production of the Model 1921 started...
    10 KB (1,049 words) - 02:58, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Osborne Fire Finder
    until the observer can peek through the nearer sighting hole and view the cross hairs in the further sight aligned with the fire. The fire lookout notes...
    5 KB (585 words) - 01:33, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Globe sight
    with a hole in the middle; these work the same way as an opaque ring, but provide a less obstructed view of the target. High-end target front sight tunnels...
    4 KB (498 words) - 09:14, 22 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Red dot sight
    A red dot sight is a common classification for a non-magnifying reflector (or reflex) sight that provides an illuminated red dot to the user as a point...
    23 KB (2,406 words) - 04:39, 27 September 2024
  • small angles to the line of sight. In July 2021, high resolution images of the jet produced by the supermassive black hole sitting at the center of Centaurus...
    39 KB (4,128 words) - 23:27, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of reported UFO sightings
    This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions. UFOs are generally...
    155 KB (7,078 words) - 19:07, 15 November 2024
  • astronomer Mark Hammergren, weather conditions on the day of the sighting were right for a "hole-punch cloud", an unusual weather phenomenon. UFO investigators...
    7 KB (747 words) - 05:47, 22 August 2024
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    Andrew Good; Alana Johnson (27 October 2019). "Mars InSight's Mole Has Partially Backed Out of Its Hole". mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original...
    140 KB (11,174 words) - 23:42, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for A Treatise on the Astrolabe
    on the back is a sighting rule (Skeat's fig 3, below) "a brod rule, that hath on either end a square plate perced with certein holes". To hold it all...
    16 KB (1,996 words) - 09:18, 11 February 2024
  • collimator sight, with one eye open and moving the head to alternately see the sight and the target, or with one eye to partially see the sight and target...
    10 KB (1,299 words) - 14:59, 24 September 2024
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