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(Latin: circle [a ring; wheel], round)
(Greek: around, round, circle, circular)
(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)
(Greek: buttock, butt, rump; muscles of the buttocks; sometimes, it means "round")
(Latin: rotondo, rotundus; round, rounded; from Latin, rota, "wheel")
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Latin: rut or track made in the ground by a wheel; circle, ring, round surface, disk)
(Greek: that which is round[ed]; a wheel, a disk)
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round circle
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
(page 19)
round wheels
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
(page 19)
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“round”
round (verb), rounds; rounded; rounding
To give a close approximation of a number by dropping the least significant numbers: A number can be rounded up or down to the nearest whole number. 78.7 can be rounded up to 79, and 77.4 can be rounded down to 77.
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Measurements and Mathematics Terms
(page 9)