Reckoning
- p. pr. & vb. n. of Reckon
- n. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
- n. An account of time
- n. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
- n. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
- n. Esteem; account; estimation.
- 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.