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dead reckoning

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dead reckoning: see navigation navigation, science and technology of finding the position and directing the course of vessels and aircraft.

Early Navigational Techniques



In ancient times, mariners navigated by the guidance of the sun and stars and landmarks along the coast.
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Sailing one direction, drifting another direction, to say nothing of the set of the current in some third direction, makes a resultant which dead reckoning can never calculate.
The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Captain Davenport worked up his dead reckoning, allowing generously for drift, and announced Moerenhout Island to be not more than ten miles off.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
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