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Princeton's WordNet

  1. round robinnoun

    a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant

  2. round robinnoun

    a letter signed by a number of people

Wiktionary

  1. round robinnoun

    A tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.

  2. round robinnoun

    A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player.

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  1. round robin

    Round robin is a term used to describe a process or system where every participant takes turns or rotates in a specific order. In the context of sports, a round robin tournament involves each team or player playing against all others in turn. In computing, round robin refers to an algorithm or method for handling tasks or processes that allocates resources in a cyclical manner.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. round robin

    This term is a corruption of ruban rond, which signifies a round ribbon. It was usual among French officers, when they signed a remonstrance, to write their names in a circular form, so that it was impossible to ascertain who signed first. Hence to sign a round robin against any person, was for any specific number of men to sign, one and all, a remonstrance against him.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of round robin in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of round robin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of round robin in a Sentence

  1. Imperial Beach:

    The stench was crazy, just terrible, we’re just going into our round-robin of endless openings and closures because of the residual sewage in the river.

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