Rounding

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1. Verb form

of Round

2. Adjective

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

3. Noun

Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.

4. Noun

Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.

5. Noun

(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
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