rounded off
rounded off is the simple past and past participle of round off.
Meaning of round off
Verb
round off (third-person singular simple present rounds off, present participle rounding off, simple past and past participle rounded off)
- To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
- Antonyms:
- square off
- To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
- The instructions say that we are not to round off until we reach the final figure. [in a calculation with interim steps]
- To complete or finish something.
- After this general training the apprentices are usually employed for a year or two as supernumeraries, being engaged to a large extent on special enquiries, a type of work well suited to rounding off their training and also to assisting both the company and the men to ascertain the type of work for...1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206
- Antonyms:
- finish up, polish off
Questions about rounded off
- What is rounded off the simple past and past participle of?
- Rounded off is the simple past and past participle of round off.
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