Rounding

Quick meaning: Rounding is an adjective meaning Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

Meaning

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• roundings

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