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Definition: Dead Reckoning |
Dead ReckoningNoun1. An estimate based on little or no information. 2. Navigation without the aid of celestial observations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | In navigation, determination of position by advancing a previous known position for courses and distances.Abbreviation DR. (references) |
Literature | Dead Reckoning A calculation of the ship's place without any observation of the heavenly bodies. A guess made by consulting the log, the time, the direction, the wind, and so on. Such a calculation may suffice for many practical purposes, but must not be fully relied on. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | Plotting aircraft position by calculations of speed, course, time, effect of wind, and previous known position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Navigation based on speed, elapsed time, and direction from a known position. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Dead ReckoningSynonyms: guess (n), guessing (n), guesswork (n), shot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Noun: measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning; (numeration); gauging; Verb: horse power. |
Numeration | Dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account; (list). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dead Reckoning |
| English words defined with "dead reckoning": To take a departure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dead reckoning": aerial navigator, airplane navigator ♦ Doppler navigation, DR ♦ wind triangle. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dead Reckoning (1947) Taggart: Dead Reckoning (1997) Dead Reckoning (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dead Reckoning Lines in the Gulf of Alaska. Showing the systematic planning of tracklines year by year from 1925 to 1939 by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Offprint call number: 526.98 M98. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Expressions using "dead reckoning": dead reckoning navigation ♦ dead reckoning position ♦ navigation by dead reckoning. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dead reckoning | 41 |
dead reckoning romero | 5 |
dead reckoning script | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "dead reckoning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bestiknavigation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gisbesteknavigatie, gegist bestek (dead reckoning navigation, dead reckoning position, navigation by dead reckoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laskelmasuunnistus (deduced position reckoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | DR, navigation l'estime (dead reckoning navigation, navigation by dead reckoning), estime. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | DR (Technical Group of the European Right), Koppelnavigation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αεροναυτιλία με αναμέτρηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | számított-hely navigáció (dead reckoning navigation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | DR (Technical Group of the European Right), determinazione del punto stimato, navigazione stimata (dead reckoning navigation, navigation by dead reckoning), navigazione a stima di posizione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | barel kyagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadday eckoningray navegação estimada (dead reckoning navigation, navigation by dead reckoning). (various references) drum estimat. (various references) счисление пути. (various references) navegación a estima, estima (esteem, regard, respect). (various references) bestick (cutlery, flatware, set of instruments, set of knife). (various references) parekete hesabı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Dead Reckoning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dead reackoning. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-g-i-k-n-n-o-r" | |
-3 letters: androgenic, endergonic, grandniece. | |
-4 letters: cankering, careening, dackering, dandering, darkening, deaconing, deadening, decerning, deraigned, donnicker, endearing, endocrine, endoergic, endogenic, engrained, grenadine, ignorance, nongraded, ordinance, reckoning, recoinage, reddening, redocking. | |
-5 letters: adorning, androgen, candider, cankered, canoeing, cindered, congener, cranking, crannied, crannoge, creaking, credenda, croaking, dackered, daikered, dangered, darkened, deaconed, decennia, decoding, deranged, dickered, dogeared, donnered, donniker. | |
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