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PRONUNCIATION OF BOMBSIGHT

bombsight  [ˈbɒmˌsaɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOMBSIGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bombsight is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOMBSIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bombsight

Bombsight

A bombsight is a device used by aircraft to accurately drop bombs. Bombsights are a feature of most aircraft from World War I on, first found on the purpose-designed bomber aircraft, and then moving to fighter-bombers and modern tactical aircraft as these aircraft took up the brunt of the bombing role. A bombsight has to estimate the path the bomb will take after release from the aircraft. The two primary forces during its fall are gravity and air drag, which make the path of the bomb through the air roughly parabolic. There are additional factors such as changes in air density and wind that may be considered, but these are only a concern for bombs that spend a significant portion of a minute falling through the air. These effects can be minimized by reducing the fall time through low-level bombing or by increasing the speed of the bombs. These effects are combined in the dive bomber. However, low-level bombing also increases the danger to the bomber from ground-based defences, and accurate bombing from higher altitudes has always been desired. This has led to a series of increasingly sophisticated bombsight designs dedicated to high-altitude level bombing.

Definition of bombsight in the English dictionary

The definition of bombsight in the dictionary is a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOMBSIGHT


adipocyte
ˈædɪpəʊˌsaɪt
anthracite
ˈænθrəˌsaɪt
astrocyte
ˈæstrəʊˌsaɪt
erythrocyte
ɪˈrɪθrəʊˌsaɪt
eyesight
ˈaɪˌsaɪt
foresight
ˈfɔːˌsaɪt
hindsight
ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt
homesite
ˈhəʊmˌsaɪt
insight
ˈɪnˌsaɪt
leucocyte
ˈluːkəˌsaɪt
leukocyte
ˈluːkəˌsaɪt
lymphocyte
ˈlɪmfəʊˌsaɪt
microsite
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌsaɪt
monocyte
ˈmɒnəʊˌsaɪt
multisite
ˈmʌltɪˌsaɪt
oversight
ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt
parasite
ˈpærəˌsaɪt
reticulocyte
rɪˈtɪkjʊləˌsaɪt
subsite
ˈsʌbˌsaɪt
website
ˈwɛbˌsaɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOMBSIGHT

bomber pilot
Bomberg
bombesin
bombilate
bombilation
bombinate
bombination
bombing
bombing campaign
bombing mission
bombing run
bomblet
bombload
bombo
bombora
bombproof
bombshell
bombycid
bombycoid
bombyx

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOMBSIGHT

a sight
at sight
backsight
blindsight
bright
know by sight
line of sight
not by a long sight
out of sight
out-of-sight
outasight
outsight
panoramic sight
partial sight
peep sight
rear sight
resight
second sight
short sight
sight
telescopic sight

Synonyms and antonyms of bombsight in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bombsight» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOMBSIGHT

Find out the translation of bombsight to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bombsight from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bombsight» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

瞄准器
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bombsight
570 millions of speakers

English

bombsight
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bombsight
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

bombsight
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прицел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bombsight
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bombsight
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

viseur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengeboman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bombenzielvorrichtung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

爆撃照準器
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bombsight
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bom
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bombsight
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குண்டு வீ்ச்சு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॉम्बइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bombanın penceresinden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bombsight
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

celownika
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приціл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bombsight
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bombsight
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bombsight
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bombsight
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bombesikte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bombsight

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOMBSIGHT»

The term «bombsight» is normally little used and occupies the 119.695 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOMBSIGHT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bombsight

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMBSIGHT»

Discover the use of bombsight in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bombsight and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
My Bombsight View of WWII
Both on the ground with the locals finding ways to survive and in the air, Casey makes you feel like you are right there beside him. This book should be a movie, it has everything.
Casey Hasey, 2011
2
The Flying Circus: Pacific War--1943--As Seen Through a ...
A personal account of World War II, from a legendary Texas congressman.
Jim Wright, 2005
3
WWII Bombardiers
Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" Bombsights The bombsight was the mechanism that, if data were entered into it correctly, would solve the so-called ""bombing problem ." Solution of this problem was the reason the bombardier flew bombing ...
Philip A. St. John, 1998
4
The Legendary Secret Norden Bombsight
This book is the first detailed volume to cover the famous Norden Bombsight (NBS) which was one of the most secret weapons used before and during World War II by the United States in its bomber aircraft.
Albert L. Pardini, 1999
5
From Campus to Combat: A College Boy Becomes a WWII Army Flier
And then there was the bombsight itself. Built by the Norden Company at a cost of 14,000 1944 dollars each, and developed by engineers, mathematicians, and physicists, the bombsight was, in those totally chipless days, a Rube Goldbergish  ...
James Alter, 2011
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Norden Bombsight
The Norden bombsight was a tachometric bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars to aid the crew of bomber ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
7
War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. ...
and small voltage or current surges (common in combat situations) caused the unit to malfunction.75 Significantly, despite the Sperry bombsight's inferior performance, the Air Corps made it standard equipment alongside the Norden because ...
Timothy Moy, 2001
8
Articles on Analog Computers, Including: Norden Bombsight, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
9
From Farm Fields to Airfields
In the meantime, I went through the calculation for determining the settings for the bombsight. I did everything by the numbers because this instructor bombardier was an eager beaver type who was really keeping his eye on everything that I ...
Forrest K. Poling
10
Incidents in the Life of A B-25 Pilot
BOMBSIGHT. AWAY. The thought of flying across the Pacific Ocean in a twin engine aircraft was exciting. Not many pilots in a twin engine aircraft had accomplished such a flight before August 1942. Bob Herry and I along with an Air Transport ...
Roy Lee Grover, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOMBSIGHT»

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NHS Museum looking to open in Lockwood House at 141 East Ave …
... pottery, hats and corsets, the Norden bombsight and other items that will tell the industrial history of the city, according to Westmoreland. «Thehour.com, Jul 15»
2
The Way We Were - Francis X. Fay
Carl L. Norden, inventor of the Norden bombsight, dies at 85 in Zurich, Switzerland, where he'd lived since the end of World War II. JUNE 18 ... «Thehour.com, Jul 15»
3
July Fourth brings special meaning to four who cherish freedom
... to provide for her family during the Depression-stricken lean days — she completed training in the Norden bombsight explosives deployment ... «Kansas City Star, Jun 15»
4
The public has a right to memory
Bombsight: Mapping the London Blitz (based at the University of Portsmouth and funded by Jisc) shows how impressive visualisation and ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
5
B-17 brings back memories for visiting veterans
The bombsight looms before me. Long belts of .50-caliber munitions, various knobs and other gadgetry fill the compartment, making it a tight fit. «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jun 15»
6
WWII vets spontaneously bond at Yakima air show
That was the Norden bombsight. That's what I ran.” Brandsom was glad to have met Drollinger and Amundson. “When you have a group like ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jun 15»
7
Minden-Tahoe Airport hosts classics
A Norden bombsight, an technological advance in the 1940s, rubbed elbows with 21st Century technology as Denny Morse captured his trip to ... «The Record-Courier, Jun 15»
8
Flying on a B-24: A reporter's experience
The bombardier used the Norden bombsight to aid in dropping bombs accurately -- which depended on altitude, true airspeed, bomb ballistics, ... «Pleasanton Weekly, May 15»
9
Why Wasn't Big Ben Bombed During World War II?
The bombsight has a field of vision of 35 degrees, and has a 1.4-times magnification. This would mean that you would be looking at a total area ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
10
Army Experts Detonate WWII Wembley Bomb
Map showing bombs that fell during the Blitz, (Pic: Bombsight.org). An Army spokesman said the team was "very well experienced", adding: ... «Sky News, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Bombsight [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bombsight>. May 2024 ».
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