page_title: Roundness (object)
section_title: Roundness measurements
hierarchical_section_title: Roundness (object) / Roundness measurements
caption_attribution_description: English: RON-Pilot - tool for roundness measurement Русский: RON-Pilot. Прибор для измерения отклонения от круглости
context_page_description: Roundness is the measure of how closely the shape of an object approaches that of a mathematically perfect circle. Roundness applies in two dimensions, such as the cross sectional circles along a cylindrical object such as a shaft or a cylindrical roller for a bearing. In geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, control of a cylinder can also include its fidelity to the longitudinal axis, yielding cylindricity. The analogue of roundness in three dimensions is sphericity.
  Roundness is dominated by the shape's gross features rather than the definition of its edges and corners, or the surface roughness of a manufactured object. A smooth ellipse can have low roundness, if its eccentricity is large. Regular polygons increase their roundness with increasing numbers of sides, even though they are still sharp-edged.
  In geology and the study of sediments, roundness is considered to be the measurement of surface roughness and the overall shape is described by sphericity.
context_section_description: Roundness measurement is very important in metrology. It includes measurement of a collection of points.
caption: Roundness measurement
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