Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device in a combat aircraft for determining the point at which to drop a bomb in order to strike a target.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device which allows
bombs to be accurately dropped from movingaircraft so as to hit a desiredtarget .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1940, he became an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co. in New York, where he worked on bomber navigation systems and the Norden bombsight mechanism.
Robert F. Garbarini, engineer and former Western Union executive, dies at age 91 Post 2010
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In 1940, he became an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co. in New York, where he worked on bomber navigation systems and the Norden bombsight mechanism.
Robert F. Garbarini, engineer and former Western Union executive, dies at age 91 Post 2010
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Maybe there was a zero error bombsight company, but the company that makes reels now made time bombs for drilling.
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The British hoped to find out about an effective bombsight they coveted, but they also aimed simply to "create goodwill"—Mr. Phelps provides an appendix with minutes of the group's first meeting—so that the Americans, who were also working on radar development, would lend a hand.
Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011
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He pressed FDR for the military hardware, for which Churchill was desperate: seaplanes, bombers, the Sperry bombsight for British warplanes, and above all the destroyers.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Maybe there was a zero error bombsight company, but the company that makes reels now made time bombs for drilling.
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He pressed FDR for the military hardware, for which Churchill was desperate: seaplanes, bombers, the Sperry bombsight for British warplanes, and above all the destroyers.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Under the AAF, women were assigned to highly responsible positions including jobs as weather observers and forecasters, cryptographers, radio operators and repairmen, sheet metal workers, parachute riggers, link trainer instructors, bombsight maintenance specialists, aerial photograph analysts and control tower operators.
Jewish Women in the Military - Jewish Women in the Military - Air Force 2010
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Furthermore, until nearly the end of the war, the vaunted “pickle barrel” accuracy claimed for the Norden bombsight was more myth than reality.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Along the way, he taught himself everything worth knowing about the Norden bombsight.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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