reckoning
11
7.1
- noun
- /ˈrɛkənɪŋ/
:
cálculo
- By my reckoning, Qetesh will be here at any moment.
- reckoning system
- time reckoning
He says we have to confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends on our will or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible.
- He says we have to confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends on our will or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible.
- He says it doesn't narrowly scan the reckoning lest it payout more than it is received.
- Is it not advisable to to advise a little bit of, of caution in terms of reckoning with your intuition?
- And so I think that reckoning of I've lost, I've lost my way was a very powerful thing to kind of work with and try and puzzle through.
Examples
-
By my reckoning, we should reach Cheyenne Springs by sundown.
-
According to my reckoning, the total cost of the project is $5,000.
-
So my reckoning of this distance gives me something bigger than one.
-
By my reckoning, that puts him on the big island.
-
By my reckoning, that account has been settled.
-
Right on target, and according to my reckoning, 32 seconds early.
-
In one much-cited reckoning, nearly half of the jobs in the current economy are at risk.
Academic text (2018) -
By my reckoning, there be about 1000 horse and 2000 afoot.
-
Colleagues note her leadership in helping archaeology recalibrate its reckoning of human influence on ancient landscapes.
Academic text (2004) -
By Holmes's own reckoning, the Germans were faced with the probability of a two-front war as of September 1906.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
370
2.6
A rough calculation of a number, amount or size
203
2.8
Doing math to find an answer or the correct amount
21
4.1
A process of working with numbers to find an answer
15
3.4
A rough calculation of how much or how many something is
The act of working out numbers and totals
A careful guess about size, amount, or cost of something
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.1
To estimate your position using direction, distance, and past information without tools
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reckoning comes from the old verb reckon, which meant 'to count' or 'calculate', so a reckoning as an act of calculating is the literal 'working out' or 'counting' of numbers.