meaning of rounding
1.  Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish. 
2.  Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service. 
3.  Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization.  See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11. 
4.  of Round
5.  mathematics a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly 
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