SIGHTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sighting mean? 

• SIGHTING (noun)
  The noun SIGHTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of observing

  Familiarity information: SIGHTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGHTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of observing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

several sightings of enemy troops were reported

Hypernyms ("sighting" is a kind of...):

observance; observation; watching (the act of observing; taking a patient look)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sighting"):

landfall (the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water))

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

 Context examples 

The exact locations of recent sightings are being kept secret to protect the recently-discovered populations.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

The timing of the most recent sighting of an individual when that individual was alive.

(Last Time Seen Alive, NCI Thesaurus)

This first sighting of phosphorus monoxide on a comet helps astronomers draw a connection between star-forming regions, where the molecule is created, all the way to Earth.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

After the first sighting of the geysers in 2005, scientists suspected repeated flexing of Enceladus by Saturn’s tides as the moon orbits the planet had something to do with their behavior.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Not only is this the first sighting of HFAs at Mercury, but the observations help round out a picture of this type of space weather in general.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

The direct sighting of LB-1 proves that this population of over-massive stellar black holes exists even in our own backyard.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The group based its survey on such tools as photographs, tourist sightings, safari guides, cattle herders, and village chiefs.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)