Mathematics and Science
- The shape of a closed curve with no sharp corners, such as an ellipse, circle, rounded rectangle, or sphere
- Rounding, the truncation of a number to reduce the number of significant figures it contains
- Round number, a number that ends with one or more zeroes
- Roundness (geology), the smoothness of clastic particles
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