ROUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rounding mean? 

• ROUNDING (noun)
  The noun ROUNDING has 1 sense:

1. (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals

  Familiarity information: ROUNDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUNDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rounding; rounding error

Context example:

taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small

Hypernyms ("rounding" is a kind of...):

miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning (a mistake in calculating)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

 Context examples 

His height was a little over six feet, but he seemed shorter on account of a peculiar rounding of the shoulders.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen repeated his manœuvre, holding off and then rounding up to windward and drifting down upon it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A period had been reached, and he was rounding it off in workman-like fashion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A condition marked by a humpback-like rounding or outward curve of the upper backbone.

(Kyphosis, NCI Dictionary)

He turned and silently gazed after the old master. Skiff Miller was rounding the curve. In a moment he would be gone from view.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Right glad was the traveller to see the high tower of Christchurch Priory gleaming in the mellow evening light, and gladder still when, on rounding a corner, he came upon his comrades of the morning seated astraddle upon a fallen tree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Micawber was so very much struck by this happy rounding off with a quotation, that he indulged himself, and us, with a second reading of the sentence, under pretence of having lost his place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Several minutes later, rounding a turn in the trail where the descent was less precipitous, he joined them in the midst of a miniature avalanche of pebbles and loose soil.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Now I am rounding off my narrative from the old camp, where Zambo has waited so long, with all our difficulties and dangers left like a dream behind us upon the summit of those vast ruddy crags which tower above our heads.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)