What is Round-robin?

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The term round-robin describes correspondence to a single address authored or signed by numerous individuals. For example a petition.

Colloquially, however, 'round-robin' is frequently given an opposite meaning, being used to describe a letter with a single author copied and sent to multiple recipients, for example the sending of family news at Christmas. This is more correctly termed a circular.

In sport, round-robin refers to every player or team in a group or pool taking turns to play one another a set number of times. This may be called the group stage (or phase) of a tournament, prior to the knock-out stage. (See Round-robin tournament for article).

In aviation, a round-robin flight is a cross-country flight which starts at one airport, travels to several other points for fly-over or touch-and-goes, and returns to the airport of origin. Such flights are often flown for cross-country training purposes.

Origin

The modern use of the term dates from the 17th Century French ruban rond (round ribbon) [1][2]. This described the practice of signatories to petitions against authority (usually Government officials petitioning the Crown) appending their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle or ribbon pattern (and so disguising the order in which they have signed) in order that none may be identified as a ringleader.

This practice was adopted by sailors petitioning officers in the British Royal Navy (first recorded 1731)[2] .

The term round-robin is recorded in English much earlier, although not with the above meaning. It first appears in 1546 (with meaning unknown) and appears later applied to a category of person (precise meaning unknown): "These Wat Tylers and Round-Robins being driven or persuaded out of Whitehall" (1671)[2].

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Notes:
Address may refer to:
  • Address (geography), a code and abstract concept expressing a location on the earth's surface
  • Japanese addressing system
  • A speech (public address)
  • Style (manner of address), honorifics

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A petition is a request to an authority, most commonly a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer.

In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to some official & signed by numerous individuals.
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Circular may refer to:
  • Circle, or something in the shape of a circle
  • Flyer (pamphlet), a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub, event, service, or other activity
  • Circular reasoning, also known as Begging the question.

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A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other participant once.
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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ribbon is a thin band of flexible material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily for binding and tying. Cloth ribbons, which most commonly includes silk, are often used in connection with dress, but also applied for innumerable useful, ornamental and
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The Crown is an abstract metonymic concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of any government. It evolved naturally as a separation of the literal crown and property of the nation-state from the person and personal property of the monarch.
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The word leadership can refer to:
  1. The process of leading.
  2. Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
  3. The ability to affect human behaviour so as to accomplish a mission designated by the leader

Terminology, usage and conceptual scope


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Naval Service

Components
Royal Navy
  • Surface Fleet
  • Fleet Air Arm
  • Submarine Service
  • Royal Navy Regulating Branch
  • Royal Naval Reserve
  • Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Royal Marines
  • (includes Royal Marines Reserve)

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Round-robin is one of the simplest scheduling algorithms for processes in an operating system, which assigns time slices to each process in equal portions and in order, handling all processes without priority.
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A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other participant once.
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Round robin DNS is a technique in which load balancing is performed by a DNS server instead of a strictly dedicated machine. This technique is usually only implemented on large networks or on IRC networks.
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A wireless mesh network is a mesh network implemented over a wireless network system such as wireless LAN.

Whereas the Internet is mostly a wire-based, cooperative electronic communication infrastructure similar to the international postal agreement, in that messages
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A round-robin story, or simply "round robin," is a type of collaborative fiction or storytelling in which a number of authors each write chapters of a novel or pieces of a story, in rounds.
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In Experimental methodology, a round robin test is a test where an analysis or experiment is performed independently several times. This can involve multiple independent scientists performing the experiment, or the use of a variety of methods and equipment.
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RRDtool is a round-robin database tool. It is designed to handle time series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load etc. The data is stored in round-robin database so that system storage footprint remains constant over time.
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