Round-off Definition
roundôf, -ŏf
noun
A handspring in which the body twists around to land with both feet facing backwards relative to the start.
American Heritage
adjective
Relating to or resulting from numerical approximation by rounding.
American Heritage
verb
(mathematics) To change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits.
Round off 15.4 to 15, round off 15.51 to 15.5 or to 16, round off 0.499 to 0, and round off 970,000 to 1 million.
"This product contains no PCBs" is a typical commercial distortion if it actually contains 0.498 of the measurement unit, rounded off to "0"
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- polish-up
- round
- polish
- brush-up
- round-down
- round-out
- express as a round number
- give a rough figure for
- approximate
Antonyms:
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