Meanings
alternative non-round
- not comparableNot round. (of a shape)
- not comparablehuman sciencesHaving qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
- not comparablehuman sciencesHaving a sharp or precise numeric value; having not been rounded.
a round number (e.g., 100) was paired with a nonround number (e.g., 103).
2004, Amos Tversky, Preference, Belief, and Similarity, page 851 more example
The researchers hypothesize that everyday experience teaches us that round (imprecise) numbers are usually larger than nonround (sharp) numbers.
2007 September 21, “Random Samples”, in Science, 317(5845), page 1657
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