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Definition of Dead reckoning

1. Noun. An estimate based on little or no information.

2. Noun. Navigation without the aid of celestial observations.

Definition of Dead reckoning

1. Noun. A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled to a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR ¹

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Literary usage of Dead reckoning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation and by Nathaniel Bowditch, George Wood Logan (1906)
"dead reckoning is the process by which the position of a ship at any instant is ... Positions by dead reckoning, also spoken of as positions tiy ..."

2. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"In this case the corrected departure. Sic. were found, with the course, by dead- reckoning, and the difference of latitude by observation, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"An able French admiral, Marcq de Saint- Hilaire, evolved an admirable solution by working out the distance from the dead- reckoning point—almost always more ..."

4. Monthly Review (1798)
"He says, ' If the difference between the lunar observations and the dead reckoning is great, it is likely to cause a doubt in the mind of the mariner which ..."

5. Plane Trigonometry with Practical Applications by Leonard Eugene Dickson (1922)
"CHAPTER VI NAVIGATION: dead reckoning 40. Navigation and its subdivisions. Navigation is the science which enables the mariner to determine with sufficient ..."

6. Ocean Magnetic Observations, 1905-1916: And Reports on Special Researches by Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming, William Francis Gray Swann, James Percy Ault, William John Peters (1917)
"The data for the dead reckoning (DR) are the ship's courses and the log-readings, the corrections to these, the astronomic positions, and the times or ..."

7. Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries by John Petherick, Katherine Harriet Edlman Petherick (1869)
"... instruments and the knowledge of using them, I was enabled to fix my points, and therefore I am enabled to correct my dead reckoning of former years. ..."

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