From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin the roundin the roundAPTa play that is performed in the round is performed on a central stage surrounded by the people watching it → round
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in the round• A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration.• This does not imply that Rassendyll is developed as a character in the round.• In future, officers received specialist military training only after they had been educated in the round.• Later in the round, on the par-four twelfth, he faced a yard approach shot into a ten-knot wind.• Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic.• Sculpted or molded objects are best seen in the round.• Lying on silk in the round leather box was a bracelet. 