round robin

n. petition signed in such a way that it is impossible to tell who signed first; letter or written communication signed by a number of people; (Sports) tournament in which each player plays all other players; letter sent to a group of people for the response by each person in turn; sequence, series

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).
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Noun
1. a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant
(hypernym) tournament, tourney
2. a letter signed by a number of people
(hypernym) letter, missive

<algorithm> A scheduling algorithm in which processes are activated in a fixed cyclic order. Those which cannot proceed because they are waiting for some event (e.g. termination of a child process or an input/output operation) simply return control to the scheduler. The virtue of round-robin scheduling is its simplicity - only the processes themselves need to know what they are waiting for or how to tell if it has happened. However, if a process goes back to sleep just before the event for which it is waiting occurs then the event will not get handled until all the other processes have been activated.
Compare priority scheduling.
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a contest or game in which each player or team plays every other player or team in turn, a meeting in which each one in a group takes part He took part in the round robin competition at his school.

a letter written by a group of people with each person writing part of the letter We sent a round robin letter to the librarian to ask for better opening hours for the library.

a meeting or discussion in which each person in a group takes part We had a round robin panel discussion on what we could do to help save the environment.

game or contest in which each player or team plays every other player or team in turn The round robin tournament was held in order to choose the championship team for the city.