Noun

rounds

1. Plural form of round.
2. The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital according to a predetermined order.
3. A route taken by someone in authority (e.g., patrol rounds taken by a night watchman).

Verb

rounds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of round.

Round

Round or rounds can mean:

• The shape of a closed curve with no sharp corners, such as an ellipse, circle, rounded rectangle, or sphere
• Rounding (sediment), the smoothness of a sediment particle
• Roundedness, the roundedness of the lips in the pronunciation of a phoneme
• Rounding, the truncation of a number to reduce the number of significant figures it contains
• Round number, a number that ends with one or more zeroes
• A level of an event, such as a tournament, golf game, or medical examination
• Round (music), a type of musical composition
• Round of drinks, a traditional method of paying in a drinking establishment
• Cartridge (firearms), a single unit of ammunition
• Round (Theosophy), a planetary cycle of reincarnation in Theosophy
• Mike Rounds, current Governor of South Dakota
• Rounds (album), a 2003 album by Four Tet
• Round Mountain (volcano), a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada
• A regular security patrol or medical staff checking on patients, "doing the rounds"
• Funding round, in business finance
• Round steak, a cut of meat
• John Horace Round, genealogist and historian
• Rounding, a process performed by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation