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Round

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.

Round may also be:

• 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.

See also: List of pages starting with Round

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