英语词汇“reckoning”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	reckoning
释义	reck·on·ing \-k(ə)niŋ, -nēŋ\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English rekening, from gerund of rekenen to reckon 1. a. : the act or an instance of computing or calculating < the reckonings of local, solar, and sidereal time — Times Literary Supplement > b. : a method of calculating < a need felt for a more precise time reckoning — A.L.Kroeber > c. : a calculation or statement of money owed : account, bill < an old beggar who could not pay his reckoning — Virginia Woolf > d. : the result of a process of calculating : computation < more than 10 percent off in his reckoning > < experiments verified the correctness of his reckoning > e. (1) : the calculation of a ship's position from astronomical observations or from dead reckoning; also : dead reckoning as opposed to observation (2) : the position of a ship determined by reckoning 2. : the act or an instance of settling accounts < would demonstrate their loyalty by postponing a reckoning of their grievances — Oscar Handlin > 3. : the act of accounting for one's conduct or the fact of being called to account < if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make — Shakespeare > < a time of reckoning > < a bitter reckoning > — see day of reckoning 4. : the act or an instance of judging : a summing up : appraisal < when the final reckoning of this composer's complete works is made — Arthur Berger > < its people have lived under the system for more than a generation … a reckoning can now be taken — Nathaniel Peffer >
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