Definition of reckoning

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Reckoning (n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

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Turn :: Turn (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander..
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
North :: North (a.) Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north..
Miscast :: Miscast (n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.
Escot :: Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Elul :: Elul (n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September..
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) An account of tim.
Tale :: Tale (v. i.) A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated..
Nephelodometer :: Nephelodometer (n.) An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation..
Outreckon :: Outreckon (v. t.) To exceed in reckoning or computation.
Calcule :: Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation.
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Enumerative :: Enumerative (a.) Counting, or reckoning up, one by one..
Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..
Miscomputation :: Miscomputation (n.) Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
Ab :: Ab (n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August..
Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..
Styled :: Style (v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars..
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