WordNet
n. the location of the target that is to be hit [syn: target]
Usage examples of "target area".
The optical view of the target area ahead of the ship remained unblemished.
When he neared the target area he bore southeast, swinging in from the east towards the target and using the cover of the small islands northeast of the target, hopefully unsentineled, for cover.
Many of them would not have the angularity to reach the target area—.
Billy was so startled that his first round went high, but he quickly settled down and put the second one into the target area.
This way, the possible target area was lessened by eighty per cent.
The idea would be to do a complete 360 degrees around the target area, but before that I wanted to go back and give the hotel another look.
They were moving, and he'd limited his own target area by promising not to go for a kill.
One is a long-range launch where the weapon approaches its target area under conventional power and then acquires and attacks targets in a supercavitating mode upon reaching a pre-determined area of operation.