round robin
- noun
- /ˈraʊnd ˈrɑːbɪn/
- Specialized
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distribución en ronda
- During the meeting, questions were addressed in a round robin style, allowing each member to contribute equally.
- round robin fashion
Examples
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So we just go through the queue in a very simple round Robin fashion and rebalancing the flows on each order.
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The team implemented a round robin approach to give everyone a chance to present their ideas.
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So it's like agent one, agent two runs, agent three runs agent four runs in that round Robin manner, OK.
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Participants were asked questions in a round-robin fashion with ample time for adding comments for their responses and those of other participants.
Academic text (2014) -
More than 50 groups operate on a round-robin basis, exchanging slides and comments.
Academic text (1995) -
These directives could be used to assign the individual rows or columns of an array to processors in contiguous blocks or in a round-robin fashion.
Academic text (2011) -
In the network, tasks are assigned to each server using a round robin method to ensure balanced workloads.
How Fair
Surface Forms
Morphology
round + robin
The element 'round' (one phase/turn) gives a clear clue about cycles and turn-taking, which partially signals the idea of distributing in order. However, 'robin' contributes no transparent semantic content here (it is lexically unrelated or historically arbitrary), so the full technical sense of a systematic, cyclical assignment cannot be derived reliably by a B1 learner from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Round robin in computing is like passing tasks around a circle so each server gets one in turn. This image of taking turns explains why it means 'a method that sends each request to the next server in order'.