单词 | round-number |
释义 | > as lemmasround-number round-number adj. using, or expressed in, round numbers (see sense 15b). ΚΠ 1814 A. Ward Speech House of Representatives on Bill Appropriations 8 An exaggeration without example, has been the effect of the round number calculation, in which gentlemen have indulged. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 464/1 This, still pursuing the round-number system, would supply nearly five articles of refuse apparel to every man. 1920 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 10 495/2 Making due allowances for all possible errors in round number estimates of this sort. 1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory i. 2 From the death of Pericles to the deaths of Alexander the Great and Aristotle (in rough, round-number dates, 420–320 bc). < as lemmas |
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