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Meanings of dead reckoning in English
Usage of dead reckoning in English
1
Now I shall chart my position and prove it by dead reckoning.
2
It's a kind of dead reckoning yeh hevn't had call to make.
3
Several times' he nearly got lost, and had to go by dead reckoning.
4
On December 9 observations and dead reckoning agreed within a mile.
5
According to dead reckoning our latitude that evening was 86º S.
6
According to dead reckoning our latitude that evening was 86° S.
7
But these are stormy waters, and we go by dead reckoning.
8
I haven't but a small notion where we are, going by dead reckoning.
9
Too often, the technique of dead reckoning marked him for a dead man.
10
By dead reckoning I made the Sobat junction 684 miles by river from Khartoum.
11
By dead reckoning we had marched 246 miles from Berber.
12
Our dead reckoning had heretofore always given the same results as our astronomical observations.
13
Also, navigating by dead reckoning requires long study and practice.
14
And dead reckoning requires expensive, power-hungry inertial measurement units.
15
Wrong as our dead reckoning evidently was, it could not be so wrong as that.
16
Mr Sudberry said this heartily, and went off to the baker's-bydead reckoning-discomfitedbut chuckling.
This collocation consists of:
Dead reckoning through the time
Dead reckoning across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common