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sighting

noun

  1. occurrence where a region of land is spotted from a ship
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/

noun

  1. The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.

    “There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal.”

    “However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sight