RECKONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reckoning mean? 

• RECKONING (noun)
  The noun RECKONING has 3 senses:

1. problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

2. a bill for an amount due

3. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

  Familiarity information: RECKONING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECKONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

calculation; computation; figuring; reckoning

Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):

problem solving (the thought processes involved in solving a problem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reckoning"):

extrapolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values)

interpolation ((mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known)

conversion (a change in the units or form of an expression:)

approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)

derivative; derived function; differential; differential coefficient; first derivative (the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx)

integral (the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x))

Derivation:

reckon (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bill for an amount due

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

reckoning; tally

Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):

account; bill; invoice (an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally

Context example:

the counting continued for several hours

Hypernyms ("reckoning" is a kind of...):

investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reckoning"):

blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)

census; nose count; nosecount (a periodic count of the population)

countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))

miscount (an inaccurate count)

poll (the counting of votes (as in an election))

recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)

sperm count (the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate)

 Context examples 

Two hours later Alleyne Edricson followed; for he had the tavern reckoning to settle, and many other duties which fell to him as squire of the body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 Jack London)

By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, he concluded, you need figures to take a reckoning, and you need nothing else save what your mother wit will teach you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a bright boy, so the tale runs, healthy and strong, and he had seen thirteen suns, in their way of reckoning time.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now, at Sotherton we have a good seven hundred, without reckoning the water meadows; so that I think, if so much could be done at Compton, we need not despair.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

According to our reckoning, he proceeded, Mas'r Davy's here, and mine, she is like, one day, to make her own poor solitary course to London.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most willingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the indispensable division of space to every couple.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)