interview vs round robin

interview

noun
  • An audition. 

  • A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. 

  • A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation. 

  • Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature. 

  • A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. 

verb
  • To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview. 

  • To be interviewed; to attend an interview. 

round robin

noun
  • The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect. 

  • A form of bet on the full set of possible combinations from a larger group (of teams, racehorses, etc.), such as the outcomes A+B, B+C and A+C from a group ABC. 

  • A petition signed in a circular fashion to disguise the order in which it was done. 

  • A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player. 

  • A form of trade, a series of exchanges in which each person in turn receives items of the same value from the previous person, finally returning to the original donor. For example in (philately) a stamp collector sends a packet of stamps to the next person on a list, who then takes the stamps he wants, replacing them with like-valued stamps, and then passing the packet to the next person on the list, until the packet ultimately returns to the original sender. 

  • A letter, with copies to multiple recipients, usually at Christmastime and often enclosed with a card, giving family news of interest to the sender. 

  • A method of dividing labor between several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn in an attempt to use resources more equitably. 

  • The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn. 

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