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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis

Meaning of "rounding" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROUNDING

rounding  [ˈraʊndɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROUNDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rounding is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROUNDING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rounding

Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a shorter, simpler, or more explicit representation; for example, replacing £23.4476 with £23.45, or the fraction 312/937 with 1/3, or the expression √2 with 1.414. Rounding is often done on purpose to obtain a value that is easier to write and handle than the original. It may be done also to indicate the accuracy of a computed number; for example, a quantity that was computed as 123,456 but is known to be accurate only to within a few hundred units is better stated as "about 123,500." On the other hand, rounding introduces some round-off error in the result. Rounding is almost unavoidable in many computations — especially when dividing two numbers in integer or fixed-point arithmetic; when computing mathematical functions such as square roots, logarithms, and sines; or when using a floating point representation with a fixed number of significant digits. In a sequence of calculations, these rounding errors generally accumulate, and in certain ill-conditioned cases they may make the result meaningless.

Definition of rounding in the English dictionary

The definition of rounding in the dictionary is a process in which a number is approximated as the closest number that can be expressed using the number of bits or digits available.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROUNDING


astounding
əˈstaʊndɪŋ
big-sounding
ˈbɪɡˌsaʊndɪŋ
binding
ˈbaɪndɪŋ
brassfounding
ˈbrɑːsˌfaʊndɪŋ
compounding
ˈkɒmpaʊndɪŋ
ending
ˈɛndɪŋ
finding
ˈfaɪndɪŋ
founding
ˈfaʊndɪŋ
grounding
ˈɡraʊndɪŋ
odd-sounding
ˈɒdˌsaʊndɪŋ
outstanding
ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋ
pending
ˈpɛndɪŋ
pounding
ˈpaʊndɪŋ
queer-sounding
ˈkwɪəˌsaʊndɪŋ
resounding
rɪˈzaʊndɪŋ
sounding
ˈsaʊndɪŋ
spending
ˈspendɪŋ
standing
ˈstændɪŋ
surrounding
səˈraʊndɪŋ
understanding
ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROUNDING

roundedness
roundel
roundelay
rounder
rounders
Roundhead
roundheaded
roundheadedness
roundheel
roundhouse
rounding error
roundish
roundlet
roundly
roundness
roundsman
roundsmen
roundtripping
roundup
roundure

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROUNDING

according
ascending
banding
bonding
branding
commanding
crowdfunding
defending
demanding
descending
expanding
funding
grinding
landing
lending
long-standing
mending
never-ending
notwithstanding
vending
winding

Synonyms and antonyms of rounding in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROUNDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rounding» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rounding

Translation of «rounding» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROUNDING

Find out the translation of rounding to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rounding from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rounding» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

四舍五入
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

redondeo
570 millions of speakers

English

rounding
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोलाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التقريب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

округления
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arredondamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

rounding
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arrondissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembulatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rundungs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

丸め
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반올림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rounding
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm tròn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முழுதாக்குதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोलाकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yuvarlatma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arrotondamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaokrąglenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

округлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rotunjire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρογγυλοποίηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afronding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avrundning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avrunding
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rounding

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUNDING»

The term «rounding» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.783 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUNDING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rounding» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rounding» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rounding

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5 QUOTES WITH «ROUNDING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rounding.
1
Nicholas D'Agosto
The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.
2
Alexander John Ellis
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
3
Lee Grant
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
4
Lucy Larcom
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.
5
Mickey Mantle
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUNDING»

Discover the use of rounding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rounding and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes
Elementary introduction to problem of cumulative effect of rounding errors in a very large number of arithmetical calculations—particularly applicable to computer operations.
James Hardy Wilkinson, 1994
2
Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and ...
Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn?a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America?is a place of forlorn and foreboding beau
Dallas Murphy, 2009
3
Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America
At the heart of the book is a sustained argument about how baseball functions as an American civil religion, affirming and sanctifying American identity, especially during periods of national crises such as wars and terrorist attacks.
Joseph L. Price, 2006
4
Rounding Third
Rob realizes his new friend is hiding something.
Walter Gerard Meyer, 2009
5
Rounding
When a quick guess is needed to count something, rounding can make math faster and fun!
Marsha Arvoy, 2010
6
The Nerd's Guide to Pre-Rounding: A Medical Student's Manual ...
This 2006 book is a how-to guide for medical students moving from the classroom to the clinical/hospital setting; a particularly stressful transition in a student-physician's career.
Richard A. Loftus, 2006
7
Rounding the Mark: The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries -
He began swimming in slow, broad strokes.
Andrea Camilleri, 2010
8
Rounding Third
Playbook.
Richard Dresser, 2004
9
Coyotes All Around
Clever Coyote thinks it's time for lunch –– and also time to show her friends how, with some simple rounding, she can add up numbers in her head. If only she were as good at hunting as she is at math!
Stuart J. Murphy, 2003
10
Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine
4.4. Rounding. During a calculation, as you have seen, floating-point arithmetic functions may produce a result with greater precision than the floating-point format supports (the guard bits in the calculation maintain this extra precision).
Randall Hyde, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROUNDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rounding is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rounding the Cape
Rounding Cape Horn is one of sailing's great challenges. It pits sailors and their boats against some of the harshest conditions on the planet. The Cape sits at ... «Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition, Jul 15»
2
Prince Fielder Trips, Falls While Rounding Third Base, Teammates …
Prince Fielder tripped and fell while rounding third base during Tuesday night's game against the Dodgers, and the video is now going viral. According to ... «The Inquisitr, Jun 15»
3
Rounding of 1c and 2c coins to be introduced nationally
What is known is that rounding will be conducted on a voluntary basis; 1c and 2c coins will remain legal tender; rounding will apply only to cash payments; and ... «Businessandleadership.com, Jun 15»
4
Theater Review: Ocean State's 'Rounding Third' scores
WARWICK, R.I. - You don't have to be a baseball aficionado to enjoy "Rounding Third," which last week ushered in the summer season at Ocean State Theatre. «The Providence Journal, Jun 15»
5
OSF HealthCare Partners with CipherHealth to Modernize Hospital …
The decision to move to a digital rounding platform using Orchid is directly in line with OSF HealthCare's current technology initiatives. In launching Orchid, OSF ... «PR Newswire, May 15»
6
Judge strikes down DMV's policy of rounding blood alcohol level
The state revoked his license for six months because his blood alcohol level was rounded up from 0.017 to 0.02 by the DMV, in accordance with its policy. «WMUR Manchester, Mar 15»
7
Bell, Telus face class actions over rounding up calls to next minute
An Ontario court has certified class action lawsuits against Telus (TSX:T) and Bell (TSX:BCE) over the practice of rounding up calls to the next full minute. «The Globe and Mail, Nov 14»
8
THEATER REVIEW: “Rounding Third”
Given these two protagonists, you can guess that playwright Richard Dresser has some fireworks in store in “Rounding Third,” playing through Nov. 9 at Vista's ... «San Diego Gay & Lesbian News, Oct 14»
9
Review: Rounding Third
Tony Braithwaite, in his third season as artistic director of Act II Playhouse, hit a home run by choosing Richard Dresser's two-hander Rounding Third as the ... «Philly.com, Sep 14»
10
Bracknell Bees forward Grant Rounding makes Bison switch
Rounding went away to try his luck with Wightlink Raiders in 2011/12, but was back at the John Nike Ice Centre a year later, where he became an integral part of ... «Reading Post, Jun 14»

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