Definition of "roundtrip"

roundtrip

noun
plural roundtrips
1. Alternative form of round trip
  Quotations
  Left with only her Sun-Times subscribers, she faced a 35-mile roundtrip to deliver to four of them.
  1988 May 20, Michael Miner, “Screwed by the Tribune, Part 3; Screwed by the Sun-Times; Screws Loose”, in Chicago Reader‎
verb
third-person singular simple present roundtrips, present participle roundtripping, simple past and past participle roundtripped
1. (computing, transitive) To export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity.
  Quotations
  In the colorimetric intents only the values within the gamut of the data encoding can be roundtripped accurately […]
  2010, Phil Green, Michael Kriss, Color Management: Understanding and Using ICC Profiles, page 284
  In some cases, roundtripping can involve repeated conversions of the file from one format to another and back. Frequent roundtripping may be a concern because each conversion has the potential to introduce unwanted changes to the file.
  2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology, page 449
2. (finance) To engage in the form of barter called a round trip.