eyeshot

English

Etymology

From eye +‎ shot, on the pattern of earshot.

Noun

eyeshot (usually uncountable, plural eyeshots)

1. Range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
   • 1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "

   • 2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "

   • 2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other.

2. (photography) Range.
3. (archaic) A brief glance.
   • 1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:

     The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.

Translations

range of vision

• Bulgarian: зрително поле (zritelno pole)
• Russian: по́ле зре́ния (ru) (póle zrénija)