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Dead reckoning   /dɛd rˈɛkənɪŋ/   Listen
Dead reckoning

noun
1.
An estimate based on little or no information.  Synonyms: guess, guessing, guesswork, shot.
2.
Navigation without the aid of celestial observations.






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"Dead reckoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... black, low-hanging clouds, and the dense spindrift with which the air was filled, it was as dark at midday as it would have been, under ordinary circumstances, half an hour after sunset; and he was perforce obliged to content himself with the very unsatisfactory result obtained by dead reckoning. ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood

... says Joe, it won't do to go by; But they doused all the glims, Matt, in sky t' other night. Dead reckoning is good for to sail for the Deadman; And Tom Deadlight he thinks ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville



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