lekerekít

Hungarian

Etymology

le- + kerekít

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛkɛrɛkiːt]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ke‧re‧kít
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

lekerekít

  1. (transitive) to round (to shape something into a curve)
    Az ács lekerekítette az asztal széleit.The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
  2. (transitive, arithmetic) to round down (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.)
    A végösszeg 25,4, de kerekítsük le 25-re.The total is 25.4, but let's round it down to 25.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • lekerekíthető
  • lekerekíttet

Further reading

  • lekerekít in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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