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Reckoning vs Imaging - What's the difference?

reckoning | imaging |

As verbs the difference between reckoning and imaging

is that reckoning is while imaging is .

As nouns the difference between reckoning and imaging

is that reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something while imaging is the technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.

reckoning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of calculating or estimating something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • (lb) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), :
  • *: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.
  • The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

    • Derived terms

    * dead reckoning

    imaging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
  • The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

    • Synonyms

    * (use of mental images) visualization

    Hyponyms

    * (technique or practice of creating images of the invisible) magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, thermography, tomography