roundtrip
roundtrip Lexical Profile
roundtrip Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
North American Denoting a journey or ticket that includes travel to a destination and back to the starting point.
"Booking a roundtrip flight is almost always more economical than purchasing two separate tickets."
• noun
North American A journey to one or more places and back to the starting point, or a ticket for such a journey.
"The train ride from the city to the coast is a four-hour roundtrip."
The complete transmission of a signal or data packet from a source to a destination and back again (in computing and telecommunications).
"Network engineers measured the average roundtrip to diagnose the server latency."
• verb
To export or convert data, files, or code into another format or application and then return it to the original format without loss of information (in computing).
"The software allows developers to roundtrip documents between the two formats seamlessly."
North American To travel to a destination and return to the starting point.
"They decided to roundtrip between Boston and New York in a single day."
Word Nuance & Usage
While the closed compound "roundtrip" is common in computing and informal travel contexts, standard dictionaries typically prefer the open form "round trip" for the noun and the hyphenated form "round-trip" for the adjective.