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rangefinding

n. The act of determining the distance to a target.

Usage examples of "rangefinding".

Bringing up the limbers, loading, slamming the breach, aiming, firing, rangefinding, changing target, removing the limbers in the event of air attacks so that their own shells would not destroy the guns after a direct hit.

He set up observation posts in the most amateurishly obvious places, the Venetian spires of the churches, and thereby provided the Germans with the most admirable opportunities for rangefinding and target practice.

That meant Hansen had no radar, no lasers—no emission rangefinding of any sort.

That meant Hansen had no radar, no lasers—no emission rangefinding of any sort.

Smartwheels use sonar, laser rangefinding, and millimeter-wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris before you even get honed about them.