Calculation vs. Reckoning — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Calculation and Reckoning
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Calculation
A calculation is a deliberate process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more results. The term is used in a variety of senses, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to the vague heuristics of calculating a strategy in a competition, or calculating the chance of a successful relationship between two people.
Reckoning
The act of counting or computing.
Calculation
The act, process, or result of calculating.
Reckoning
An itemized bill or statement of a sum due.
Calculation
An estimate based on probabilities.
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Reckoning
A settlement of accounts
A day of reckoning.
Calculation
Careful, often cunning estimation and planning of likely outcomes, especially to advance one's own interests.
Reckoning
The act or process of calculating the position of a ship or an aircraft.
Calculation
The act or process of calculating.
Reckoning
The position so calculated.
Calculation
The result of calculating.
Reckoning
The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
Calculation
(countable) Reckoning, estimate.
By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.
Reckoning
An opinion or judgement.
Day of reckoning
Calculation
(countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
Reckoning
A summing up or appraisal.
Calculation
The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
Reckoning
The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
Calculation
The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.
Reckoning
The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
Calculation
An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port,Abhorrent of a calculation crost,Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.
Reckoning
(archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
Calculation
The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Reckoning
(archaic) Rank or status.
Calculation
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Reckoning
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.
He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived.
Calculation
Planning something carefully and intentionally;
It was the deliberation of his act that was insulting
Reckoning
The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.
Reckoning
Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.
Reckoning
The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, - in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); - also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
Reckoning
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
Reckoning
A bill for an amount due
Reckoning
The act of counting;
The counting continued for several hours
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