Definitions for "Crosshair"
a Computable object, so should be added to a Controller to be recomputed when the coordinates of the point change
The little image in the centre of the screen that indicates where you weapon will fire, these images can normally can be changed to different types from within the game. Half-Life 2 extended the functionality of this by adding ammo information to it, which I thought was very clever
The intersecting vertical and horizontal line superimposed on the thermal imager display. It is commonly used to indicate the approximate area from which a thermal imager is taking a surface temperature reading.
A line used for the alignment of knots and the reflection of lines. Crosshairs appear either as a horizontal and a vertical line or as two diagonal lines.
A graphically-based cursor overlay for identifying locations on an image - represented as the intersection of a vertical and horizontal line.
a hair, thread, or wire constituting part of a reticle
an abstract representation of visual and non-visual indexing, as well as muscle memory