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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)

  1. (transitive) To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
    Antonyms:
    square off
  2. (intransitive, transitive) 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]
  3. (transitive) 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

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.

Words near rounded off in the dictionary

  1. roundballers
  2. rounde
  3. rounded
  4. rounded down
  5. rounded in
  6. rounded off
  7. rounded on
  8. rounded out
  9. rounded the Horn
  10. rounded to
  11. rounded up

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