round down

English

Verb

round down (third-person singular simple present rounds down, present participle rounding down, simple past and past participle rounded down)

1. (transitive, arithmetic) To round (a number) to the greatest integer that is not greater than it, or to some other lower value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.

   Antonym: round up

   Hypernym: round off

   The total is $25,715, but to keep the figures simple, I'll round it down to $25,000.

Related terms

• round out

Translations

to round downwards to the desired accuracy

• Chinali: 向下取整
• Finnish: pyöristää alaspäin
• German: abrunden (de)
• Italian: arrotondare (it) per difetto (it) m