Eyeshot

Origin

From earshot

Full definition of eyeshot

Noun

1. range of vision, a distance in which something is visible
• 1991, July 26, Bonnie McGrath, Ed Steiger Gives Great Party, He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "
• 2004, July 23, Grant Pick, Antenna Invasion, "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, 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