meaning of rounding
1. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
2. Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
3. Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
4. of Round
5. mathematics a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly
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