Round
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Round may mean:
- Round (music), a type of musical composition.
- Round number, a number that ends with one or more zeroes.
- Round (Theosophy), a planetary cycle of reincarnation in Theosophy.
- Round Table Pizza, a pizza restaurant.
- In a contest or tournament, a round is a certain level in the event.
- In mathematics, to round (or round up or round down) is used to truncate the number of significant figures of a figure.
- The shape of a circle or sphere.
- A cartridge (firearms), a single unit of ammunition.
- Vowel roundedness; in phonetics, whether a vowel is rounded or unrounded.
- In certain sports (e.g. golf), the basic unit of play; in many others, it refers to one level of a round-robin tournament.
- In a pub, a set of drinks purchased by a member of a group of people for the whole group.
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