Synonyms:
rounding, rounding_error
Meaning: (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
Usage examples
We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.
On rounding the mezquite grove, behind which both had made disappearance, he discovered he had done so.
About twelve yards in advance of us a prosperous-looking citizen was rounding a clump of bushes where the walk curved.
Half way in the march the land showed up splendidly, and I decided to make straight for Mt. Darwin, which we are rounding.
Breasting a long slope, we reached the summit of a broad, smoothly rounding ridge covered with a dense growth of stunted spruce.
Mexico gave a protesting grunt as if to say: "What's the use of that, now we're so near?" He quickened his gait into a languid trot. Rounding a great clump of black chaparral he stopped short.
Along the sides of the glacier we saw the mighty flood grinding against the granite walls with tremendous pressure, rounding outswelling bosses, and deepening the retreating hollows into the forms they are destined to have when, in the fullness of appointed time, the huge ice tool shall be withdrawn by the sun.