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Rounding

noun

(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals. Synonym: rounding error. "Taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"

Round

verb

(past & past part. rounded; pres. part. rounding)

Wind around; move along a circular course.

Make round. Synonyms: round off, round out.

Pronounce with rounded lips. Synonyms: labialise, labialize.

Attack in speech or writing. Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe.

Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state. Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off.

Express as a round number. Synonyms: round down, round off, round out.

Become round, plump, or shapely. Synonyms: fill out, flesh out.

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"Rounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... rushed forward on their course. They were just rounding into the Ohio, on their mad career, when we saw one of them suddenly fly in pieces, torn, rent, shivered, the atmosphere filled with fragments. Then came a terrific explosion, like the din of an earthquake, shaking the raft with its ...

— Down The River - Buck Bradford and His Tyrants • Oliver Optic

... way through crowded streets where sheep are not, can have small appreciation of his wisdom and his sterling worth. To know him properly, one needs to see him at work in a country where sheep abound, to watch him adroitly rounding up his scattered charges on a wide-stretching moorland, gathering the wandering wethers into close order and driving them before him in unbroken company to the fold; handling the stubborn pack in a narrow lane, or holding them in a corner of a field, immobile under the spell of his vigilant ...

— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... soap and water applied to the regulator bar in the iron envelope will protect it from oxidizing much during the heating. The portions of the regulator bar marked h are intended to be rounded, while the parts marked m are intended to be dead flat. The rounding is carefully done, first with a file and finished with emery paper. The outer edge of the loop A'' is a little rounded, also the inner edge next the cap C. This will be understood by inspecting Fig. 46, where we show a magnified ...

— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous

... earnestness to "see" if any of those righteous five would be guilty of the wickedness of becoming ghosts to frighten an old man. She would have felt easier at once if she could have convinced herself that they would; but she could only see each of them rounding eyes of horror at her, and her sobs, ...

— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner

... you a pitcher, missie," said the good-natured man, and with the same kind of clay, just rounding it a bit and giving a cunning little pinch to form the spout, he made quite ...

— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

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