rounding
Trimming decimal places
Rounding is adjusting a number to a nearby value, typically one with fewer digits or decimal places.
You round 3.7 up to 4, or 3.2 down to 3.
The verb also applies to physical shaping: rounding the corners of a table.
To round something is to make it rounder or to go around it: The ship rounded the cape at dawn.
Tenths-based notation
- integerNumber lacking fractions
- fractionPart divided by whole
- truncateCut off abruptly
- significantHaving notable importance
digits · floor · ceiling · half-up · bankers · error · precision · algorithm
Informed guess at quantity
- ballparkSports venue or estimate
- roughUneven in surface
- approximateNearly accurate but inexact
- nearlyAlmost but incomplete
almost · about · circa · loosely · proximate · guesswork · range · imprecise
Curve or flex
- arcCurved line segment
- turnRotational movement
- cornerMeeting point of edges
- sweepBrush clean with broom
bow · curl · hook · loop · winding · meander · crook · flexure
decimal
Tenths-based notation
significant · digits · floor · ceiling · half-up · bankers · error · precision · algorithm · nearest
estimate
Informed guess at quantity
- ballparkSports venue or estimate
- roughUneven in surface
- approximateNearly accurate but inexact
nearly · almost · about · circa · loosely · proximate · guesswork · range · imprecise · inexact
bend
Curve or flex
sweep · bow · curl · hook · loop · winding · meander · crook · flexure · contour
budgeting
Allocating funds systematically
- accountingMaintaining financial records
- interestAttention, stake, or fee
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
loss · percentages · fractions · valuation · wages · pricing · totals · cents · invoicing · tax
sanding
Friction-smoothing a surface
- buffingFriction-based shine work
- polishingSmoothing by friction
- smoothingReducing irregularities systematically
filing · grinding · lathe · chamfer · beveling · contouring · molding · finishing · edges · corners
- mathaddition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra
- math practiceaddition, subtraction, multiplication, long division, fractions
- deformingbending, twisting, warping, curving, folding
- approximatingguessing, estimating, ballparking, eyeballing, gauging
- number sensenumber sense, counting, numeracy, number recognition, number line
- data processingnormalization, data entry, standardization, encoding, scaling
roundingexactness
Correctness in every detail
precision · specificity · accuracy · exactitude · significant figures
roundingsharpening
Making more cutting
squaring · angulating · pointing · edging · cornering
roundingrounding down
Reducing to lesser integer
truncating · rounding up · truncation · flooring · ceiling
- rounding upGathering dispersed items
- rounding outFinishing to fullness
- rounding offAdjusting to nearest value
- rounding downReducing to lesser integer
- rounding errorInaccuracy from approximating numbers
- rounding basesRunning the baseball circuit