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Meaning of 'rounding' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Rounding [ a.]
- Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
2 . Rounding [ n.]
- Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
- Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
3 . Rounding [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Round

Meaning of 'rounding' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . rounding [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
Example in sentence:
  • taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small;
  • the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding

Nearby Words:

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