RECKONING

In Navigation, the estimated place ofa ship, calculated from the rate as determined by the log, and the course as determined by the compa , the place frj>m which the ve el started being known. An elegant and ready method for solving this problem has been recently given by Profe or Gill of New York, in the first number of his Mathematical Miscellany, much more accurate than the method usually given by writers on navigation. (Sfe NiiViG ation.) Dead reckoning meAns the same as reckoning, due allowance being made for drift, lee-way, currents, . RECLIN ACTION (Lat. reclino, I repose), in Dialling, is the angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it iutersects in a horizontal line. [s. 1039]