"round down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: rounds down [present, singular, third-person], rounding down [participle, present], rounded down [participle, past], rounded down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} round down (third-person singular simple present rounds down, present participle rounding down, simple past and past participle rounded down)
  1. (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. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Arithmetic Related terms: round out Translations (to round downwards to the desired accuracy): 向下取整 (Chinali), pyöristää alaspäin (Finnish), abrunden (German), arrotondare per difetto [masculine] (Italian)

Inflected forms

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