| a. | 1. | Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish. |
| n. | 1. | (Naut.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; - called also |
| 2. | (Phonetics) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, 11. |
| Noun | 1. | rounding - (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small" Synonyms: rounding error |