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Round-robin may refer to:

Computing

• Round-robin DNS, a technique for dealing with redundant Internet Protocol service hosts
• Round-robin networks, communications networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology
• Round-robin scheduling, an algorithm for assigning equal time-slices to different processes on a computer
• Round-robin item allocation, an algorithm for fairly allocating indivisible objects among people

Communication

• Round-robin (document), a document signed by several parties in a circle in order to hide the identity of the leader
• Round-robin letter, a news-filled letter typically accompanying a Christmas card
• Round-Robin Letter (Spanish–American War), a letter written in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898

Other uses

• Round-robin story, a collaborative piece of fiction or storytelling
• Round-robin test, an interlaboratory test performed independently several times
• Round-robin tournament, a competition where each contestant meets all other contestants in turn
• Round-robin start, a possible ordering of turns in a turn-based game
• Round-robin bet, a type of wager offered by UK bookmakers, covering three selections
• "Round Robin", a 1960 song by Donnie Brooks

See also

• RRDtool, a round-robin database tool
• Modular arithmetic, a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" upon reaching a certain value
• All pages with titles containing round-robin

• Disambiguation pages