dead reckoning
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Tweet n. 1. A method of estimating the position of a vehicle such as an aircraft or a ship based on its previous position and its course and speed over a known interval of time. 2. Predictive calculation based on inference; guesswork. [Possibly alteration of ded., abbr. of deduced, from deduce, to trace from the beginning; see DEDUCE.] |
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