Associations to the word «Reticle»

Wiktionary

RETICLE, noun. A grid, network, or crosshatch found in the eyepiece of various optical instruments to aid measurement or alignment
RETICLE, noun. (obsolete) A small net

Dictionary definition

RETICLE, noun. A network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope