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Reckoning vs Numbering - What's the difference?

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Reckoning is a related term of numbering.


As verbs the difference between reckoning and numbering

is that reckoning is while numbering is .

As nouns the difference between reckoning and numbering

is that reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something while numbering is a sequence of numbers indicating order or otherwise used for identification.

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

    numbering

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sequence of numbers indicating order or otherwise used for identification.
  • The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification.
  • The action of counting or ordering with numbers.

    • Derived terms

    * autonumbering

    Verb

    (head)