rounding
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rounding
- /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/ UK, US
Rhymes with -aʊndɪŋ
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, round + -ing.
adjective more rounding · most rounding
- Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish. Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
noun roundings
- The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
- The numerical value obtained by this process.
- The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
- A rounded surface; a curve. In the early Egyptian works, the relief was low, the surface flat, and but little if any attempt was made to show the roundings of the human figure, or to exhibit the inflexion of the human form.
- In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
verb
- present participle and gerund of round
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: orbicular, rotund, orbiculate, discoidal, disklike, discoid, ringlike, globular, globose, circular, round out, round off, spheric, spherical, environ, encircle
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adj round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish
| Deutsch | gerundet |
|---|---|
| Italiano | arrotondamento |
| Русский | окру́глый okrúglyj, кру́глый krúglyj, круглова́тый kruglovátyj, закруглённый zakrugljónnyj |
noun the act of rounding a mathematical value
| Español | redondeo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 반올림 banollim, 사사오입 sasaoip |
| 日本語 | 端数処理 hasūshori, 四捨五入 shishagonyū, 丸め marume |
| 中文 | 四捨五入 /四舍五入 sìshěwǔrù |
| Français | arrondi |
| Deutsch | Runden, Rundung |
| Italiano | arrotondamento |
| Русский | округле́ние okruglénije |
| العربية | تَقْرِيب taqrīb |
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title = {rounding},
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