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Definition of Resighting
1. resight [v] - See also: resight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resighting
Literary usage of Resighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Essentially all information on breeding dispersal in alcids has been obtained
through the banding and resighting of individuals. The difficulty of capturing ..."
2. Bering's Voyages: An Account of the Efforts of the Russians to Determine the by Frank Alfred Golder, Leonhard Stejneger (1922)
"... the first being a new discovery, the second probably a resighting of an island
seen by Bering on September 25, 1741. During the summer of 1742 he sailed ..."
3. An Admiral's Log: Being Continued Recollections of Naval Life by Robley Dunglison Evans (1910)
"The introduction of the new powder had necessitated the resighting of all the
guns, and the work had been done by the Ordnance Department as rapidly as ..."
4. The Law of Building, Engineering, and Ship Building Contracts: And of the by Alfred Arthur Hudson (1895)
"119 9 11 Estimated cost of resighting and relaying other parts thereof 1500 0 0
Estimated cost of repairing outfall works washed away by the tide owing to ..."
5. Modern Abyssinia by Augustus Blandy Wylde (1901)
"... and I do not think that a single- barrel magazine rifle is a drawback, and it
is seldom that a second shot is fired without resighting. ..."
6. Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds edited by C. John Ralph (1999)
"Quickly running in her direction for about 25 m may often result in a resighting,
because the disturbance will keep her from returning to the nest, ..."
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