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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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dead reckoning

a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations

dead reckoning [¦ded ′rek·ən·iŋ]

(navigation)

Determination of position of a craft by advancing a previous position to a new one on the basis of assumed distance and direction traveled.

Dead Reckoning

the continuous calculation of the elements of a vessel’s course, such as speed and direction, and the effects of external forces in order to determine the vessel’s coordinates without observation of orientation points on shore or of heavenly bodies. The accuracy of dead reckoning is sufficient for keeping a vessel on the course set and for ensuring navigational safety. The quantities used are the ship’s heading and speed and the drift vector. When dead reckoning is performed on a map, the true course, distances traveled, and the ship’s turning trajectory and drift are calculated and plotted. The use of automatic position plotters in such dead reckoning permits continuous calculation of the vessel’s position; when dead reckoning is done by hand, positions are calculated sequentially at discrete time intervals. Analytic techniques for dead reckoning require the use of calculators.

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No references found	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	dead flat dead flue dead ground dead halt Dead Heart dead heat Dead Horse Point State Park Dead Horse Ranch State Park Dead Ice dead knot Dead Languages dead leaf dead leg dead letter dead letter box dead level dead link dead load dead man anchor dead man's hand dead march dead media dead oil dead parking dead rail Dead Reckoning dead rise dead rising Dead River dead room dead sand Dead Sea Dead Sea Scrolls dead set dead sheave dead shore dead short dead soft steel dead space dead spot Dead Standing Tree dead stick Dead Timber State Recreation Area dead time dead track dead tree dead tree edition dead wall dead water dead weight dead well	Dead Peasants Life Insurance Dead Peasants Policies Dead Peasants Policy Dead Peer Detection Dead People Server Dead People Taste Like Chicken dead person Dead Persons Society Dead Piro Day Dead pixel Dead Pixel Live Dead plate Dead pledge Dead Poetic Dead Poets Society dead point Dead President Dead Presidents Dead Prez Dead pulled wool dead pulp dead rail Dead rat tree Dead Rat's Ball Dead Reckoning Dead Reckoning Analyzer Dead Reckoning Analyzer/Indicator Dead Reckoning Augmented GPS Navigation Dead Reckoning Equipment Dead Reckoning Error Dead Reckoning Indicator Dead Reckoning Module Dead Reckoning Position Dead Reckoning Tracer Dead Right There Dead Right There - Yesterday Dead Right There Last Week Dead Right There Who Knows When dead ringer dead ringer dead ringer Dead Ringer for Love Dead Ringers Dead Ringers Dead Ringers Dead rise Dead rise Dead Rising Dead Rising Dead River dead room dead room Dead Round Dead Runners of NorthEast Ohio Dead Runners Society Mid-Atlantic

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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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