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rotundity


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rotundity  \Ro*tund"i*ty\,  n.  [L.  rotunditas:  cf  F. 
  rotondit['e].] 
  1.  The  state  or  quality  of  being  rotu?;  roundness; 
  sphericity;  circularity. 
 
  Smite  flat  the  thick  rotundity  o'the  world!  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Hence  completeness;  entirety;  roundness. 
 
  For  the  more  rotundity  of  the  number  and  grace  of 
  the  matter,  it  passeth  for  a  full  thousand. 
  --Fuller. 
 
  A  boldness  and  rotundity  of  speech.  --Hawthorne. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rotundity 
  n  :  the  roundness  of  a  3-dimensional  object  [syn:  {sphericity}, 
  {sphericalness},  {globosity},  {globularness}] 




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