Usually means: Increasing to nearest whole number.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rounding up: Merriam-Webster
  2. rounding up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rounding up: Vocabulary.com
  4. rounding-up: Wordnik
  5. rounding up: Wiktionary
  6. Rounding up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Rounding up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rounding up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rounding up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rounding up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rounding up: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rounding up: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Rounding up)

noun:  Rounding-up is a phenomenon that occurs in sailing when the helmsman (or tiller-handler) is no longer able to control the direction of the boat and it heads up (or "rounds up") into the wind, causing the boat to slow down, stall out, or tack.


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