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Meaning of ROULETTE

Pronunciation:  roo'let

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
  2. [n]  a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
  3. [n]  a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
 
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 Synonyms: line roulette, toothed wheel
 
 See Also: curve, curved shape, cycloid, epicycloid, gambling game, game of chance, hypocycloid, wheel

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Rou*lette"\, n.
A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper,
as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.

  2. \Rou*lette"\, v. t.
To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by
incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of
postage stamps.

  3. \Rou*lette"\, n. [F., properly, a little wheel or ball.
See {Rouleau}, {Roll}.]
1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move
   round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red
   and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the
   result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
2. (Fine Arts)
   (a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a
       plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
   (b) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a
       plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
3. (Geom.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a
   given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over
   another fixed curve. See {Cycloid}, and {Epycycloid}.
 

 

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