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1795 J. Malham Naval Gazetteer I. 252/2 The channel of St. Nicholas comes in..parallel with the rounding off of the Corton Sand.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. Suppl. 72 The Raia oxyrhynchus..may be distinguished by a great tendency to circularity in the disk, formed chiefly by a rounding off of the pectoral fins.

1849 Eclectic Mag. Sept. 88/2 We spare our readers the detail of a final interpolation and additional rounding off of individual errors by a geographical process which completes the discussion.

1886 R. J. Shee tr. R. Gneist Eng. Parl. ii. 46 As a rounding-off of this scheme, we come upon the feudal-system of the distress.

1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 82 This rounding off of stature and ages makes the comparison of annual increments somewhat uncertain.

1935 C. N. Shuster & F. L. Bedford Field Work in Math. iv. 14 In computation with approximate numbers, rounding off should be done by these rules.

1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning iii. 38 The private developer refers to most forms of peripheral development as ‘rounding-off’.

1971 P. Gresswell Environment 132 Development will be severely restricted except for a reasonable amount of infilling and/or rounding off.

2005 M. Steinberg Choral Masterworks 287 Twenty years after he completed the score, there was a rounding-off that touched him deeply.