rounding

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, round +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: round‧ing

Adjective

rounding (comparative more rounding, superlative most rounding)

1. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:

     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.

Derived terms

• rounding error

Translations

round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish

• Finnish: pyöreähkö, pyörenevä
• German: gerundet (de)
• Italian: arrotondamento (it)
• Russian: окру́глый (ru) (okrúglyj), кру́глый (ru) (krúglyj), круглова́тый (ru) (kruglovátyj), закруглённый (ru) (zakrugljónnyj)
• Turkish: yuvarlanmış

Noun

rounding (countable and uncountable, plural roundings)

1. The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
2. The numerical value obtained by this process.
3. The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
4. A rounded surface; a curve.
   • 1860, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 8, page 292:

     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.

5. In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bankers' rounding
• broken rounding
• convergent rounding
• double rounding
• Dutch rounding
• floating-point rounding
• Gaussian rounding
• odd-even rounding
• scaled rounding
• statistician's rounding
• stochastic rounding
• unbiased rounding

Related terms

• inrounding
• outrounding

Translations

the act of rounding a mathematical value

• Arabic: تَقْرِيب m (taqrīb)
• Asturian: arredondiadura f
• Belarusian: акругле́нне n (akruhljénnje)
• Bulgarian: закръгляне n (zakrǎgljane)
• Catalan: arrodoniment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 四捨五入／四舍五入 (zh) (sìshěwǔrù)

• Czech: zaokrouhlení n
• Finnish: pyöristys (fi), pyöristäminen (fi)
• French: arrondi (fr) m
• Galician: redondeo m
• German: Runden (de) n, Rundung (de) f
• Hungarian: kerekítés (hu)
• Italian: arrotondamento (it) m
• Japanese: 端数処理 (はすうしょり, hasūshori), 四捨五入 (ja) (ししゃごにゅう, shishagonyū), 丸め (まるめ, marume)
• Korean: 반올림 (ko) (banollim), 사사오입 (ko) (sasaoip)
• Polish: zaokrąglanie (pl) n
• Russian: округле́ние (ru) n (okruglénije)
• Slovene: zaokrožanje n
• Spanish: redondeo (es) m
• Turkish: yuvarlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: окру́глення (uk) n (okrúhlennja)

the act of rounding one's lips

• Catalan: arrodoniment m
• Polish: zaokrąglanie (pl) n

Verb

rounding

1. present participle and gerund of round

Anagrams

• inground