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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

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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

reckless recklessly recklessness recklessnesses reckling Recklinghausen Recklinghausen's disease of bone Recklinghausen's disease type I Recklinghausen's tumour recklings

reckon reckoned reckoner reckoners reckoning (current term) reckoning (current term) reckonings reckons recks reclad

recladded recladding reclads reclaim reclaim reclaimable reclaimed reclaimer reclaimers reclaiming

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