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rounding down

rounding down is the present participle and gerund of round down.

Meaning of round down

Verb

round down (third-person singular simple present rounds down, present participle rounding down, simple past and past participle rounded down)

  1. (transitive) To round (a number) to the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
    • The total is $25,715, but to keep the figures simple, I'll round it down to $25,000.
    Antonyms:
    round up

Questions about rounding down

What is rounding down the present participle and gerund of?
Rounding down is the present participle and gerund of round down.

Words near rounding down in the dictionary

  1. roundhousing
  2. roundie
  3. roundies
  4. roundin'
  5. rounding
  6. rounding down
  7. rounding error
  8. rounding errors
  9. rounding in
  10. rounding off
  11. rounding on

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