Traditional Uses
- Ceiling function, the mathematical operation of rounding a number up to the next higher integer.
- Roundup, a term in American English referring to the process of gathering animals into an area, known as a "Muster" in Australia.
- Rounding up, when a helmsman cannot control a boat and it heads into the wind
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