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Meanings of vowel labialization in English

Russian
огубление
Portuguese
vogal arredondada
Spanish
redondeamiento vocálico
Catalan
arrodoniment vocàlic

How the lips form during the articulation of a vowel.

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        огубление
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        Examples for "roundedness"
        Examples for "roundedness"
        1
        In fact, one was conscious of a general well-roundedness about her.
        Stubble
        2
        There is nothing that expresses the roundedness of human beings more than storytelling.
        The Irish Times
        3
        And it turns out his views on well-roundedness are more nuanced than they may first appear.
        Reuters
        4
        But, equally, his search for distinctive expression at times subverts the roundedness that is the mark of great song.
        The Irish Times
        5
        We characterize the tilings by the distributions of polygon reduced area, a scale-free measure of the roundedness of polygons.
        Pubmed