Crossword clues for roundness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roundness \Round"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
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Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
Syn: Circularity; sphericity; globosity; globularity; globularness; orbicularness; cylindricity; fullness; plumpness; rotundity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from round (adj.) + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being round.
WordNet
n. the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular [ant: angularity]
Wikipedia
The roundness or sharpness of handwriting patterns is caused by the phase of the horizontal and vertical pen-tip movements. The velocity signal components of these movements, which are virtually sinusoidal in shape, have a phase delay close to 90 degrees for very round handwriting. The correlation between Vx(t) and Vy(t) will be low. Sharp handwriting is characterized by a much higher correlation between the horizontal and vertical velocity signal, and a corresponding smaller phase delay.
Roundness may refer to:
- Roundness (handwriting), the sharpness of handwriting patterns
- Roundness (object), the measure of sharpness of a particle's corners
- Roundness (geology), the roundness of clastic particles
Roundness is the measure of how closely the shape of an object approaches that of a circle.
Roundness is dominated by the shape's gross features rather than the definition of its edges and corners, or the surface roughness of a manufactured object. A smooth ellipse can have low roundness, if its eccentricity is large. Regular polygons increase their roundness with increasing numbers of sides, even though they are still sharp-edged.
Roundness applies in two dimensions. Its analogue in three dimensions is sphericity. In geology and the study of sediments (where three-dimensional particles are most important), roundness is considered to be the measurement of surface roughness and the overall shape is described by sphericity.
Roundness is the degree of smoothing due to abrasion of sedimentary particles. It is expressed as the ratio of the average radius of curvature of the edges or corners to the radius of curvature of the maximum inscribed sphere.
Usage examples of "roundness".
Her skin glowed with the soft luster of creamy satin, and through the cloth he saw the inward curve of her waist, amazingly small in its unlaced freedom, the trim and seductive roundness of her hips, and the lithe grace of her limbs.
There was pain in her chest and abdominal areas, but she was happily aware of a return to normal roundness where her flat mastectomy scar had been.
Their pearliness contrasted with the inky roundness of their eye, which looked black but in fact was the deepest of reds, blood-rich.
We all conceived a prepossession in his favour, for there was a sterling quality in this laugh, and in his vigorous, healthy voice, and in the roundness and fullness with which he uttered every word he spoke, and in the very fury of his superlatives, which seemed to go off like blank cannons and hurt nothing.
They gripped the firm roundness of her ass, and before she could respond, her dark prince knelt and delved into her dripping box where Tarras had tasted her nectar.
I only knew the tyke by the depth of his chest, the roundness of his foot, and his manner of baying, for the poor gazehound was painted like any Venetian courtesan.
With a will of their own, her eyes were drawn to his manroot, and widened to their full roundness.
The flute still hung around his neck, and he touched its familar roundness.
It ill becomes me to prate too much of what I have endured for the faith, and yet, since you have observed it, I must tell you that this thickness and roundness of the waist is caused by a dropsy brought on by over-haste in journeying from the house of Pilate to the Mount of Olives.
As though that sound held some special plea, some secret message, Silas sat down on the bed, still cradling her to him, his lips exploring the soft swell of one breast, while his hands gently cupped and held their roundness.
He could, indeed, curse with a richness of vocabulary in a roundness of tone unequalled by any other man in Fecamp.
His face held the roundness of babyhood, despite his six or seven years.
But if the bulgy roundness of his person and the shortness of his legs in any way detracted from his personal importance, these trifling defects were, he was well aware, more than atoned for by the peculiar dignity of his countenance.
None of the tent's worn places or patches or seams showed in the bluish half-light, and even its ordinary peaked roundness seemed blurrily mysterious of outline as it gently quivered and swelled and ebbed.
Without the roundness of her cheeks to balance them her dark blue eyes became huge in her face and underneath them her high, chiseled cheekbones gave her an almost Eastern quality.