cross hair

Other forms: cross hairs

Definitions of cross hair
  1. noun
    either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration
    “he had the target in his cross hairs”
    synonyms: cross wire
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    type of:
    line
    a mark that is long relative to its width
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