rounding
/ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
rounding error
bankers' rounding
broken rounding
convergent rounding
double rounding
Dutch rounding
floating-point rounding
Gaussian rounding