rounding-n
type: LexicalEntry
canonical form: rounding
sense: 00073997-n
part of speech: noun

rounding error-n
type: LexicalEntry
canonical form: rounding error
sense: 00073997-n
part of speech: noun

00073997-n
type: LexicalConcept
in scheme: en-word.net
definition: (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
example: the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding
example: taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small
ili: i35793
lexfile: noun.act
part of speech: noun
domain topic: 06009822-n
hypernym: 00073628-n