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Definition of Reckoning

Reckoning of Reckon The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. An account of time Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. The charge or account made by a host at an inn. Esteem; account; estimation. 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 position of a ship as determined by calculation. Related Definitions: Account, Act, Adjustment, Also, An, And, As, Astronomical, At, By, Calculation, Called, Case, Charge, Compass, Contradistinction, Counting, Dead, Determined, Either, Esteem, Estimation, For, From, Host, In, Inn, Latter, Liabilities, Log, Made, Observation, Of, One, Or, Position, Reckon, Reckoning, Record, Result, Sailed, See, Settlement, Ship, Shown, Steered, The, Time, To, Under, Used, Who

Reckoning Quotations Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. Anthony Trollope And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. Isaac Asimov Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. Nicolaus Copernicus Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. Ella Maillart

Reckoning Translations reckoning in French is liquidation reckoning in Italian is resa dei conti reckoning in Latin is ratio reckoning in Spanish is suelta

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