noun
The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
An opinion or judgement.
day of reckoning
A summing up or appraisal.
My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.
The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.
The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.