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Round robin
Meaning
Noun
●
The part of a
tournament
in which every
player
or team
competes
against each of the others in turn.
●
In Christmas:
A
petition
signed in
a
circular
fashion
to
disguise
the
order in
which it was done.
●
A
letter
, with
copies
to
multiple
recipients
, usually at Christmastime and often
enclosed
with a
card
,
giving
family
news
of interest
to the sender.
●
In Video games:
A method of
dividing
loot
amongst a
party
of
player
s by having
the game
assign
in turn
loot
to a
player
or an
enemy
corpse
to
loot
to a
player
.
●
In Philately:
A form of
trade
, a
series
of
exchanges
in which each person
in turn
receives
items
of the same value from the
previous
person,
finally
returning
to the
original
donor
. For
example
in (philately) a
stamp collector
sends
a
packet
of
stamps
to the next person on
a list
, who then
takes
the
stamps
he
wants
,
replacing
them with like-valued
stamps
, and then
passing
the
packet
to the next person on the
list
, until the
packet
ultimately
returns
to the
original
sender.
●
In Computing:
A method of
making use
of several
similar
subsystems
,
assigning
tasks
to each of them
in turn
. For
example
:
data
are sent to a
destination
down several
communications
links
in
turn to
achieve
greater
combined
speed.
●
In Gambling:
A form of
bet
on the
full
set of possible
combinations
from a
larger
group (of
teams
,
racehorses
, etc.), such as the
outcomes
A+B, B+C and A+C from a group ABC.
●
In Music:
The MIDI
technique
of using different
sampled
versions
of the same
sound
for
successive
notes
, to
avoid
an
unnaturally
repetitive
effect.
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Synonyms
Round-Robin
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