(Askeri) PUSULA İLE MEVKİ TAYİNİ (KARA); PARAKETE İLE MEVKİ TAYİNİ (DZ.); HESAPLA MEVKİ TAYİNİ (HV. ): Bulunulan mevkiin pusula ile ve sürate, geçen zamana ve bilinen bir noktaya nazaran istikametine dayanan hesaplarla tespiti. Bu usul; çölde seyahat, kıyı sularında seyrüsefer ve hava seyrüseferinde kullanılır
(Askeri) HESABİ SEYRÜSEFER (HV.); PARAKETE SEYRİ (DZ. ): Bilinen bir noktanın mesafe ve istikametine göre mevkiin tayin edilmesi esasına dayanarak yapılan seyrüsefer. Bu seyrüsefer; hız, düşme (yana) ve istikamet hesapları esas tutularak hazırlanır. Bknz. "navigation"
'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'.
as reckoned by the Dutch: five o'clock by the Dutch reckoning would be five o'clock in the Dutch rather than, e.g., a Canadian time zone; 1 March 1625 in the
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
If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now. The day of reckoning is coming for the water company directors
{i} navigation by calculation; method of determining the position of a plane or ship by making a graph of its course and speed from a previously known position
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 for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation
Period of time dividing major eras in the history of Ayreth The First Reckoning starts with the Soulgift and the Godswar The Third Reckoning is defined by the Magewars The Forth Reckoning is marked by the Dark Sun Wars The current era of the companions is the Fifth Reckoning
Someone's reckoning is a calculation they make about something, especially a calculation that is not very exact. By my reckoning we were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechaab