adj
Meaning 1
Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
rounding
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UK, US: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
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rhymes with -aʊndɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: R AW1 N D IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The numerical value obtained by this process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A rounded surface; a curve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 7
present participle and gerund of round
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 8
(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding
- taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rounding error
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pyöreähkö — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Finnish: pyörenevä — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- German: gerundet — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Italian: arrotondamento — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Russian: окру́глый (okrúglyj) — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Russian: кру́глый (krúglyj) — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Russian: круглова́тый (kruglovátyj) — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Russian: закруглённый (zakrugljónnyj) — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Turkish: yuvarlanmış — round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
- Arabic: تَقْرِيب (taqrīb) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Asturian: arredondiadura — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Azerbaijani: yuvarlaqlaşdırma — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Belarusian: акругле́нне (akruhljénnje) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Bulgarian: закръгляне (zakrǎgljane) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Catalan: arrodoniment — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Chinese Mandarin: 四捨五入 /四舍五入 (sìshěwǔrù) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Czech: zaokrouhlení — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Finnish: pyöristys — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Finnish: pyöristäminen — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- French: arrondi — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Galician: redondeo — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- German: Runden — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- German: Rundung — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Hungarian: kerekítés — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Italian: arrotondamento — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Japanese: 端数処理 (hasūshori) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Japanese: 四捨五入 (shishagonyū) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Japanese: 丸め (marume) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Korean: 반올림 (banollim) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Korean: 사사오입 (sasaoip) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Polish: zaokrąglanie — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Russian: округле́ние (okruglénije) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Slovene: zaokrožanje — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Spanish: redondeo — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Turkish: yuvarlama — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Ukrainian: окру́глення (okrúhlennja) — the act of rounding a mathematical value
- Catalan: arrodoniment — the act of rounding one's lips
- Polish: zaokrąglanie — the act of rounding one's lips
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