range finder

range finder

noun
any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
Also, range·find·er.


Origin:
1870–75
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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range finder

noun
a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object [syn: rangefinder
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