Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rounding_error

1 sense of rounding error

Sense 1
rounding, rounding error -- ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small")
       => miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation -- (a mistake in calculating)