dead reckoning

1. 1.

   an estimate based on little or no information

   Synonymsguessguessworkguessingshot

   Broaderestimate
2. 2.

   navigation without the aid of celestial observations

   Broadernavigation

Questions about dead reckoning

What does dead reckoning mean?

dead reckoning means "an estimate based on little or no information". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dead reckoning?

Close synonyms include guess, guesswork, guessing, shot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dead reckoning a common word?

dead reckoning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.