nonround
adjEtymology From non- + round.
1
Not round. (of a shape)
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Of a vowel Having qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
3
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Of a number Having 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 85:
- 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:
- Synonyms
- unrounded
- Derived terms
- nonroundness