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Definition of Round down
1. Verb. Express as a round number. "Round off the amount"
Definition of Round down
1. Verb. (transitive arithmetic) To round (a number) to the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Down
Literary usage of Round down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"To reach from thence Shakspeare's Cliff (near Dover) in a direct line, the
projecting rock at round down, an immense mass of chalk, which exactly ..."
2. Our iron roads: their history, construction, and social influences by Frederick Smeeton Williams (1852)
"One of these protruding rocks was the round down Cliff: it rose to the height of
375 feet above the level of the sea, being the highest point of the ..."
3. Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy by Jabez Hogg (1853)
"round down Cliff from the Beach as it appeared after the explosion. exhibited the
electric light in Paris, and it was proposed to have it in several points, ..."
4. Railway Locomotives and Cars (1843)
"Destruction of Round-Down-Cliff" by Gunpowder. of 18000 lbs. of powder ...
That cliff is round down Cliff, the scene and subject of this day's operations. ..."
5. Directions for Laying Off Ships on the Mouldloft Floor: With Some by John Fincham (1840)
"To lay off a Round-down and Sheer Transom. (Figs. 1 and 2, Plate I.) 70. Before the
transoms are laid off, the projection of the margin and upper side of ..."
6. Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture: Being the Article by Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1841)
"Now, to obtain the round-down of the deck at any particular station, take the
half-breadth of the ship at that station, and set off this half-breadth on the ..."
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