rounding
Syllables: round·ing/ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
rounding adjective: round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish. Also the present participle and gerund of round.
Adjective
rounding (comparative more rounding, superlative most rounding)
- Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
- 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.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
Noun
rounding (countable and uncountable, plural roundings)
- The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
- The numerical value obtained by this process.
- The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
- A rounded surface; a curve.
- 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.1860, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 8, page 292
- In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
Also used as
rounding is also the present participle and gerund of round.
rounding meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rounding in Hindi
- राउंडिंग
rounding in Tamil
- வட்டமிடுதல், வட்டமிட்டல்
rounding in Urdu
- راؤنڈنگ
rounding in Bengali
- রাউন্ডিং
More languagesFewer languages
- rounding in Telugu
- రౌండింగ్
- rounding in Odia
- ଗୋଳାକାର କରିବା
- rounding in Nepali
- राउन्डिङ, राउन्डिंङ, गोलिकरण
- rounding in Arabic
- تَقْرِيب taqrīb
Forms of rounding
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more rounding |
| superlative | most rounding |
| Noun | |
| plural | roundings |
Origin of rounding
By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Words formed from rounding
- rounding error
- bankers' rounding
- broken rounding
- convergent rounding
- derounding
- double rounding
- Dutch rounding
- floating-point rounding
- Gaussian rounding
- odd-even rounding
- scaled rounding
- statistician's rounding
- stochastic rounding
- unbiased rounding
Phrases with rounding
Words that rhyme with rounding
Questions about rounding
- What does rounding mean?
- Rounding means round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
- What is rounding in Hindi?
- Rounding in Hindi is राउंडिंग. See Rounding meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rounding?
- Rounding can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce rounding?
- Rounding is pronounced /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near rounding in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounding (page history and authors); rounding (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rounding (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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