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Webster 1913 Edition
Rounding
Round′ing
,Adj.
Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Round′ing
,Noun.
1.
(Naut.)
Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; – called also
service
. 2.
(Phonetics)
Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rounding
ROUND'ING
, ppr.1.
Making round or circular.2.
Making full, flowing and smooth.ROUND'ING
,Adj.
ROUND'ING
,Noun.
Rounding in, a pulling upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal. Rounding up is a pulling in like manner, when a tackle hangs in a perpendicular direction.
Definition 2024
rounding
rounding
English
Adjective
rounding (comparative more rounding, superlative most rounding)
- Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
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Noun
rounding (plural roundings)
- The act of rounding a mathematical value.
- 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.
- 1860, Journal of the Society of Arts (volume 8, page 292)
- 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)
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rounding
- present participle of round
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