Phrases with «dead reckoning»

"Dead reckoning" is a phrase used to describe estimating or determining your current position based on your course and distance traveled from a known starting point, without using any instruments or external references. It involves using your own judgment and calculations to navigate and figure out where you are. Full definition

dead reckoning

Sentences with «dead reckoning»

Add to this his despair over the outbreak of World War I just after he arrived in Lambaréné, and his subsequent incarceration, along with his wife, in a French concentration camp, and one begins to understand why Schweitzer in the period after 1913 gradually questioned and then renounced one chunk of Western «conventional wisdom» after another, choosing instead to travel by dead reckoning toward some distant continent of Promise across all sorts of uncharted, trackless wastes. (religion-online.org)
One can estimate the direction and speed of these currents by subtracting the predicted vector based on dead reckoning from the vector representing the ships actual speed and direction. (oceanmotion.org)
With the newly designed label, EurekaSeoul Citra Hop Ale will be available in stores across the Humboldt and Bay Area starting April 20th, along with its new collaboration beer with Dead Reckoning Tavern in Arcata — This Is Not A Bro - Deal Hop Ale. (brewbound.com)
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Phrases with «dead reckoning»

Sentences with «dead reckoning»

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