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- noun gymnastics A
move similar to acartwheel but ending with the legs together and thegymnast facing in the opposite direction.
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Examples
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I did a roundoff, my feet landing with a crunch on the melting sheath of ice.
Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011
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There were differences in range and precision, differences in roundoff algorithms, mysterious overflows or underflows, different ways of handling errors and exceptions, and weird truncations.
Ada Lovelace Day 2009
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Floating point roundoff and truncation error is a largely under-recognized issue in most analysis.
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The "Yurchenko" is a "roundoff flic-flac into a backward 1 1/2 salto with a 1 1/2 turn."
Leap Of Faith 2008
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She began with a roundoff and "flic-flac," a leap backward to the hands and back to the feet.
Leap Of Faith 2008
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The amount of IVA paid by foreigner isn't even a roundoff.
MORE GRINGO TAX 2006
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The amount of bottled water purchased by foreigners is not even a roundoff of a drop in the bucket in comparison to the sales of bottled water to the Mexican market.
Dogs and dog food 2005
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But full floor gymnastics were pretty well beyond my reach; I never got past the roundoff to the back flip.
Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007
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But full floor gymnastics were pretty well beyond my reach; I never got past the roundoff to the back flip.
Jamais vu James Killus 2007
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Quadrupling CO2 (apparently, the latest fad) should invoke all of the nonlinearities contained in the AOGCMs. Does it, or do you get a similar exponential (probably due to roundoff error) ?
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