Origin of dead reckoning
from ded. reckoning, abbreviation, abbreviated of deduced reckoningdead reckoning


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dead reckoning

noun
- A method of estimating the position of a vehicle such as an aircraft or a ship based on its previous position and its course and speed over a known interval of time.
- Predictive calculation based on inference; guesswork.
Origin of dead reckoning
Possibly alteration of ded. abbr. of deduced from deduce to trace from the beginning ; see deduce .
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(uncountable)
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"dead reckoning." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/dead-reckoning>.
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dead reckoning. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/dead-reckoning