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Definition of Reckoning

1. Noun. Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.

2. Noun. A bill for an amount due.

3. Noun. The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order. "The counting continued for several hours"

Definition of Reckoning

1. n. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

Definition of Reckoning

1. Verb. (present participle of reckon) ¹

2. Noun. The action of calculating or estimating something. ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern. ¹

4. Noun. An opinion or judgement. ¹

5. Noun. The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reckoning

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Medical Definition of Reckoning

1. 1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. "Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." (South) "He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived." (Macaulay) 2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn. "A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning." (Addison) 3. Esteem; account; estimation. "You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed." (Sir P. Sidney) 4. 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 fro dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. The position of a ship as determined by calculation. To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reckoning

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Literary usage of Reckoning

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

1. Italy by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1877)
"X. Reckoning of Time. The old Italian reckoning from 1 to 24 o'clock is now disused in ... The ordinary reckoning of other nations is termed ora francese. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The initial point of the reckoning is in AD 825; and the year 1076 commenced in AD 1900. The popular view about this reckoning is that it consists of cycles ..."

3. A Manual of Grecian and Roman Antiquities by Ernst Frederik Bojesen, Thomas Kerchever Arnold, Robert Bateman Paul (1848)
"Each Grecian state had, generally speaking, its own mode of reckoning time, as well as its own weights, measures, and coinage. In public documents the year ..."

4. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"thus reckoning them not as «= 5 but as = 9. The square of 9 is passed lightly over as only a step towards the cube. 3. Towards the close of the Republic, ..."

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