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noun
a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
a transportation ticket for such a trip.
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Origin of round trip An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
OTHER WORDS FROM round trip round-trip, adjective
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How to use round trip in a sentence Finding the shortest round trip on a given shape might seem as simple as picking a direction and walking in a straight line.
Unfortunately, our existing processors are a bad match for the sort of algorithms that many of these techniques are based on, in part because they require frequent round trip s between the processor and memory.
Computer scientists also triumphed this year in dealing with the famous traveling salesperson problem, which concerns how to find the shortest round trip for any collection of cities.
At some point in the next several years she will conclude her round trip back to Diego Garcia and begin the entire process again.
Christofides’ algorithm uses this tree as the backbone for a round-trip tour, adding extra edges to convert it into a round trip .
A 64-year-old animal trainer, he makes the six-hour round-trip every two weeks to submit to her and explore his sexuality.
She was making the round trip for the second time since the fighting began.
He blamed the Ukrainians for letting it get run down, and he cut the round-trip air fare from Moscow almost in half.
He searches patiently through his briefcase and produces a round-trip ticket for the seat in question.
It took me 1.5 hours (3 hours round trip ) to get to school every day.
The round trip covers a distance of about seventy-five miles and occupies eight or ten hours.
The Pennsylvania made a round trip in about thirty-five days, with a day or two of idle time at either end.
The next day we left our pony, and made a flying round trip of thirty miles to the settlement.
In less than two weeks, Motor Matt, we could make a round trip to the Bahamas in your air ship.
They saddled up and left at once, in order to complete the round trip before dark.
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British Dictionary definitions for round trip
noun
a trip to a place and back again, esp returning by a different route
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Other Idioms and Phrases with round trip
A journey to a given place and back again, usually over the same route; also, a ticket for such a trip. For example, The fare for a round trip is generally lower than for two one-way journeys . [Mid-1800s]
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