Definition of reckoning

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

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Calculation :: Calculation (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate..
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..
Outtell :: Outtell (v. t.) To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning..
Quintan :: Quintan (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever..
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Quartan :: Quartan (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever..
Esteem :: Esteem (v. t.) Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price..
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..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Esteem; account; estimation.
Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..
Miscast :: Miscast (n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.
Miscomputation :: Miscomputation (n.) Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary..
Escot :: Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Dead-reckoning :: Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a..
Computation :: Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
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