round down

1. 1.

   express as a round number

   “round off the amount”

   Synonymsround offround outround

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Questions about round down

What does round down mean?

round down means "express as a round number".

What is another word for round down?

Close synonyms include round off, round out, round. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is round down a common word?

round down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.