ROUND SHAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does round shape mean? 

• ROUND SHAPE (noun)
  The noun ROUND SHAPE has 1 sense:

1. a shape that is curved and without sharp angles

  Familiarity information: ROUND SHAPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUND SHAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shape that is curved and without sharp angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("round shape" is a kind of...):

form; shape (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "round shape"):

bulb (anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop)

cone; cone shape; conoid (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

disc; disk; saucer (something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate)

coil; curl; curlicue; gyre; ringlet; roll; scroll; whorl (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals))

convolution; swirl; vortex; whirl (the shape of something rotating rapidly)

ellipsoid of revolution; spheroid (a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes)

sphere (a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center)

sphere (a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses))

cylinder (a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line)

toroid; torus (a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle)

rim (the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object)

 Context examples 

Once the left-over pieces reassembled, they gave Hygiea its round shape and thousands of companion asteroids.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round shape, hard and much the worse for wear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)