Round

Round or rounds can mean:

• The shape of a closed curve with no sharp corners, such as an ellipse, circle, rounded rectangle, or sphere
• Roundness (geology), the smoothness of clastic particles
• Roundedness, the roundedness of the lips in the pronunciation of a phoneme
• Rounding, the truncation of a number to reduce the number of significant figures it contains
• Round number, a number that ends with one or more zeroes
• A level of an event, such as a tournament or golf game

• Round (boxing), a time period within a bout; a number of rounds comprise a bout

• Round (music), a type of musical composition
• Round of drinks, a traditional method of paying in a drinking establishment
• Round or Cartridge (firearms), a single unit of ammunition
• Round (Theosophy), a planetary cycle of reincarnation in Theosophy
• Mike Rounds, 31st Governor of South Dakota (2003-11)
• Rounds (album), a 2003 album by Four Tet
• Round Mountain (volcano), a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada
• A regular patrol, as in "doing the rounds"

• Grand rounds or rounds, a ritual in medical education and inpatient care

• Funding round, in business finance
• Round steak, a cut of meat
• John Horace Round (1854-1928), genealogist and historian
• Rounding, a process performed by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation
• Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, a parkway system in Minneapolis
• Round - a type of business, where a service provider/retailer visits a group of regular customers over a period of time, frequently associated with a territory, e.g. a milk round or a lawn mowing round.

See also

• List of all pages starting with "Round"