English Explanatory Dictionary

rounding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
noun
  1. The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
  2. The numerical value obtained by this process.
  3. The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
  4. A rounded surface; a curve.
  5. In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of round

Pronunciation

/ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rounding.wav

Word forms

rounding more rounding most rounding roundings

Etymology

By surface analysis, round + -ing.

Related words

inrounding outrounding

Derived words

rounding error bankers' rounding broken rounding convergent rounding derounding double rounding Dutch rounding floating-point rounding Gaussian rounding odd-even rounding scaled rounding statistician's rounding stochastic rounding unbiased rounding
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