Rounding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In bookbinding, the operation of shaping the folded and sewed sheets into a slightly convex form at the back. It is done either by hand-tools or by machinery.
  • noun. The action or attitude of a whale when curving its small in order to dive. Also rounding-out.
  • noun. Nautical, old rope or strands wound about a rope to prevent its chafing.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
  • noun. Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
  • noun. Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, ยง 11.
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  • verb. Present participle of round.
  • noun. The act of rounding a mathematical value
  • noun. The numerical value obtained by this process
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  • noun. (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
    • Word Usage
    "The implied backstory can go a long way in rounding out a non-character without turning him into a full-fledged character."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    miscalculation  misestimation  misreckoning  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abounding  astounding  bounding  compounding  confounding  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    labializing  roundish  
    variant
    service  
    verb-stem
    round  
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