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rounding

See round.


rounding [′rau̇nd·iŋ]
(mathematics)
Dropping or neglecting decimals after some significant place. Also known as truncation.


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And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.
I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people sur- rounding the huge hole in which the cylinder lay.
As, rounding a dark, wooded point, bathed in fresh air and sunshine, we opened to view a crowd of shipping at anchor lying half a mile ahead of us perhaps, he called me aft from my station on the forecastle head, and, turning over and over his binoculars in his brown hands, said: "Do you see that big, heavy ship with white lower masts?
 
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