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- v. Present participle of round.
- n. The act of rounding a mathematical value
- n. The numerical value obtained by this process
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
- n. Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
- n. Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In bookbinding, the operation of shaping the folded and sewed sheets into a slightly convex form at the back. It is done either by hand-tools or by machinery.
- n. The action or attitude of a whale when curving its small in order to dive. Also rounding-out.
- n. Nautical, old rope or strands wound about a rope to prevent its chafing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
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