Meaning

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish..

Definitions by Sense

1. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
2. The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
3. The numerical value obtained by this process.
4. The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
5. A rounded surface; a curve.
6. In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
7. present participle and gerund of round

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.

Word Forms

• more rounding
• most rounding
• roundings

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When Should You Use Rounding?

Use rounding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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