nonround
English
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[edit]nonround (not comparable)
- Not round. (of a shape)
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Having qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
- (psychology, of a number) Having a sharp or precise numeric value; having not been rounded.
- 2004, Amos Tversky, Preference, Belief, and Similarity, page 85:
- a round number (e.g., 100) was paired with a nonround number (e.g., 103).
- 2007 September 21, “Random Samples”, in Science[1], 317(5845), page 1657:
- The researchers hypothesize that everyday experience teaches us that round (imprecise) numbers are usually larger than nonround (sharp) numbers.