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Verb

zero in ‎(third-person singular simple present zeros in, present participle zeroing in, simple past and past participle zeroed in)

1. To focus one's aim; to zoom in and center on something.

   The pilot zeroed in and launched the guided missile.

   Zero in and find a watermark in the image.

   • 1981, USENET 15 Sep 1981 on 08 Dec 2006

     When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me to zero in on a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.

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• zero in on