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Round robin   /raʊnd rˈɑbən/   Listen
noun
round-robin, round robin  n.  
1.
Any series or sequence of actions.
2.
A document circulated from one person to another in a group, often with comments added by each recipient.
3.
A petition or similar document, in which the signatures are arranged in circular form in order to conceal the order of signing.
4.
(Sports) A tournament in which each contestant plays against every other contestant at least once; a failure to win any contest does not result in elimination from the tournament. Contrasted with elimination tournament


adjective
Round  adj.  
1.
Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball. "The big, round tears." "Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world."
2.
Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
3.
Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills. "Their round haunches gored."
4.
Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; said of numbers. "Pliny put a round number near the truth, rather than the fraction."
5.
Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price. "Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum." "Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon."
6.
Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
7.
(Phonetics) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial.
8.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath. "The round assertion." "Sir Toby, I must be round with you."
9.
Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; said of style, or of authors with reference to their style. (Obs.) "In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant."
10.
Complete and consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct. "Round dealing is the honor of man's nature."
At a round rate, rapidly.
In round numbers, approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, etc.; as, a bin holding 99 or 101 bushels may be said to hold in round numbers 100 bushels.
Round bodies (Geom.), the sphere right cone, and right cylinder.
Round clam (Zool.), the quahog.
Round dance one which is danced by couples with a whirling or revolving motion, as the waltz, polka, etc.
Round game, a game, as of cards, in which each plays on his own account.
Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; distinguished from running hand.
Round robin.
(a)
A written petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc., the signatures to which are made in a circle so as not to indicate who signed first. "No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch."
(b)
(Zool.) The cigar fish.
Round shot, a solid spherical projectile for ordnance.
Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight.
Round tower, one of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upward, and usually having a conical cap or roof, which crowns the summit, found chiefly in Ireland. They are of great antiquity, and vary in heigh from thirty-five to one hundred and thiry feet.
Round trot, one in which the horse throws out his feet roundly; a full, brisk, quick trot.
Round turn (Naut.), one turn of a rope round a timber, a belaying pin, etc.
To bring up with a round turn, to stop abruptly. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Circular; spherical; globular; globase; orbicular; orbed; cylindrical; full; plump; rotund.





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"Round robin" Quotes from Famous Books



... gratified, and partly incapable, and underwent a long course of questions about the Duke and the poisoning. Lady Gertrude, whose father seemed to have owned half the coverts in Ireland, had never before heard of such enormity. She suggested a round robin and would not be at all ashamed to put her own name to it. "Oh, for the matter of that," said Spooner, "Chiltern can be round enough himself without any robin." "He can't be too round," said Lady Gertrude, with a ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... radical change in their views," continued Mr. Lavender, a little puzzled. "Let me leave you this periodical. Read it, and you will see how extremely vital all that I have been saying is. And then, perhaps, if you would send me a round robin, such as is usual in a democratic country, I could pop over almost any day after five. I sometimes feel"—and here Mr. Lavender stopped in the middle of the road, overcome by sudden emotion—"that I have really no right to be alive when I see what ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... hound. But Spooner was partly gratified, and partly incapable, and underwent a long course of questions about the Duke and the poisoning. Lady Gertrude, whose father seemed to have owned half the coverts in Ireland, had never before heard of such enormity. She suggested a round robin and would not be at all ashamed to put her own name to it. "Oh, for the matter of that," said Spooner, "Chiltern can be round enough himself without any robin." "He can't be too round," said Lady Gertrude, with ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... were mistress in this house for a week," said she, "I reckon those four men and seven maids would scarce send up a round robin begging ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... making everybody look and act of a piece, and that the young folks were more alike than people of her own day. It is impossible to give the delightfulness of her talk in any written words, as well as many of its peculiarities, for her way of going round Robin Hood's barn between the beginning of her story and its end can hardly be followed at all, and certainly not in her own dear ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett


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