round off
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
Transitive verb
verb
To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The instructions say that we are not to round off until we reach the final figure. [in a calculation with interim steps]"
- "Round off 15.4 to 15, round off 15.51 to 15.5 or to 16, round off 0.499 to 0, and round off 970,000 to 1 million."
- ""This product contains no PCBs" is a typical commercial distortion if it actually contains 0.498 of the measurement unit, rounded off to "0""
- "After this general training the apprentices are usually employed for a year or two as supernumeraries, being engaged to a large extent on special enquiries, a type of work well suited to rounding off their training and also to assisting both the company and the men to ascertain the type of work for which they are best suited."
- "Manchester United's in-form striker rose to head home Stewart Downing's corner and then rounded off a sweeping counter-attack involving Theo Walcott and Ashley Young to wrap up the formalities seconds before the break."