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dead reckoning
noun [U]Definition
› a way of calculating the position of a ship or aircraft using only information about the direction and distance it has travelled from a known pointNavigation and shipwrecks
(Definition of dead reckoning noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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