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Round off

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  1. 1
    To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid. transitive
  2. 2
    make round wordnet
  3. 3
    To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits. intransitive, transitive

    "The instructions say that we are not to round off until we reach the final figure. [in a calculation with interim steps]"

  4. 4
    express as a round number wordnet
  5. 5
    To complete or finish something. transitive

    "After this general training the apprentices are usually employed for a year or two as supernumeraries, being engaged to a large extent on special enquiries, a type of work well suited to rounding off their training and also to assisting both the company and the men to ascertain the type of work for which they are best suited."

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  1. 6
    bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state wordnet

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