Dictionary

round off en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (transitive) To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
   • The instructions say that we are not to round off until we reach the final figure. [in a calculation with interim steps]
   • 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"
3. (transitive) To complete or finish something.
   • Manchester United's in-form striker rose to head home Stewart Downing's corner and then rounded off a sweeping counter-attack involving Theo Walcott and Ashley Young to wrap up the formalities seconds before the break. 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
   • 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. 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:

Forms

Antonyms

square off · finish up · polish off

Coordinates

round out

Deriveds

roundoff · round-off

Relateds

round number · rounding error · round out · round to

Translations (46)

ru зако́нчить (to complete or finish something) · ru заверша́ть (to complete or finish something) · gl redondear (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · es redondear (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ru округля́ть (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · mi whakaawhiwhi (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · de den letzten Schliff geben (to complete or finish something) · pt finalizar (to complete or finish something) · de runden (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ru закругли́ть (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · fr compléter (to complete or finish something) · ru округли́ть (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · fr arrondir (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · ja 四捨五入 (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ro rotunji (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · sv avrunda (to complete or finish something) · nl afronden (to complete or finish something) · fr arrondir (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ru округля́ть (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · ast arredondiar (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ru заверши́ть (to complete or finish something) · ru закругляться (to complete or finish something) · pl zaokrąglać (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · pl wyokrąglać (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · cmn 四捨五入 /四舍五入 (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · tl bilugin (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · es redondear (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · ru округли́ть (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · pl sfinalizować (to complete or finish something) · pt arredondar (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · pl zaokrąglać (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · ru закругля́ть (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · la rotundō (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · de abrunden (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · ru зака́нчивать (to complete or finish something) · ko 반올림 (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · gl redondear (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · pt arredondar (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · pl zaokrąglić (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · la rotundō (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular) · de abrunden (to complete or finish something) · nn avrunda (to complete or finish something) · pl finalizować (to complete or finish something) · pl zaokrąglić (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · az yuvarlaqlaşdırmaq (to change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits) · pl wyokrąglić (to change the shape of an object to make it more circular)