Usually means: Navigation based on estimated calculations.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word dead reckoning:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead reckoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead reckoning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead reckoning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead reckoning: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead reckoning: Vocabulary.com
  6. dead-reckoning, dead reckoning: Wordnik
  7. dead reckoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dead reckoning: Wiktionary
  9. dead reckoning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dead reckoning: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dead-reckoning, Dead reckoning, dead reckoning: Dictionary.com
  12. Dead Reckoning (album), Dead Reckoning (disambiguation), Dead Reckoning (novel), Dead Reckoning, Dead reckoning (disambiguation), Dead reckoning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Dead-reckoning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dead-reckoning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dead reckoning: Rhymezone
  16. Dead-reckoning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dead-reckoning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. dead reckoning: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. Dead Reckoning: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. dead-reckoning, dead reckoning: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dead reckoning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Dead-reckoning, dead reckoning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Dead reckoning: World Wide Words
  24. dead reckoning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dead reckoning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead reckoning: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead Reckoning: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead Reckoning: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead reckoning: Master Mariner
  2. dead-reckoning: Chapters in the Sky
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Dead Reckoning: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See dead_reckon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead reckoning)

noun:  A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled from a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR

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