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Reckoning (Noun)

A bill for an amount due.

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

The budget committee spent hours doing the complex financial reckoning required to balance the state's expenses and revenues.
The engineer's reckoning of the bridge's structural stresses showed that it could withstand the expected wind loads.
A simple reckoning of the votes cast in the election revealed that the winner had received only a narrow plurality.
After some difficult algebraic reckoning, the student finally solved the quadratic equation on her math homework.
The accountant's reckoning of the company's assets and liabilities indicated that it was in better financial shape than initially thought.

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours".