rounding

In bookbinding, the operation of shaping the folded and sewed sheets into a slightly convex form at the back. It is done either by hand-tools or by machinery.

The action or attitude of a whale when curving its small in order to dive. Also rounding-out.

Nautical, old rope or strands wound about a rope to prevent its chafing.

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; — called also service.

Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

Present participle of round.

The act of rounding a mathematical value

The numerical value obtained by this process

(mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals