rounds up

Herds into place

Rounds up means to gather scattered things or people into one place: The sheriff rounded up the usual suspects, She rounded up the kids for dinner.

With numbers, rounding up means adjusting to the next higher convenient figure—3.7 rounds up to 4.

The opposite is rounds down.

Related

convene · herd · organize · truncate · rally · consolidate · collect · adjust · decimal place · arrange · wrangle · wagon train · stray cats · coordinate · amass · unify · accumulate · cluster

Categories
Opposites
gathering/dispersal

rounds updisperses

Spreads widely apart

scatters · releases · lets go · sets free · spreads out

numerical approximation

rounds uprounds down

Reduces to nearest lower integer

truncates · floors · rounds off

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G