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Definition of Roulette
1. Noun. A line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure.
Generic synonyms: Curve, Curved Shape
Specialized synonyms: Cycloid, Epicycloid, Hypocycloid
2. Noun. A wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations.
3. Noun. A gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in.
Definition of Roulette
1. n. 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. n. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.
3. 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.
Definition of Roulette
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots. ¹
3. Noun. A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint. ¹
4. Noun. (geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve. ¹
5. Noun. (stamp-collecting) any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roulette
1. to make tiny slits in [v -LETTED, -LETTING, -LETTES]
Medical Definition of Roulette
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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. A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Roulette
Literary usage of Roulette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"Centre of Curvature of any roulette.—T preceding formula can be readily extended to
... It may be noted that P, is the centre of curvature of tl roulette ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"Centre of Curvature of any roulette.—The preceding formula can be readily ...
It may be noted that PI is the centre of curvature of the roulette described ..."
3. History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry by Charles D. Page (1906)
"The men were then marched back by the left flank to the roulette house, passed
between the house and the spring-house on the side of the garden, ..."
4. Ballades and Verses Vain by Andrew Lang (1884)
"BALLADE OF roulette. TO RR THIS life—one was thinking to-day, In the midst of a
medley of fancies — Is a game, and the board where we play Green earth with ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Cubic and Quartic Curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901)
"A curve rolls on a straight line; it is required to find the roulette traced by any
... If the roulette is an ellipse, the rolling curve is an epicycloid. ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on Cubic and Quartic Curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901)
"A curve rolls on a straight line; it is required to find the roulette traced by any
... If the roulette is an ellipse, the rotting curve is an epicycloid. ..."
7. An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus by Horace Lamb (1897)
"Curvature of a Line-roulette. we have ultimately The curvature of a line-roulette,
ie of the envelope of a straight line carried by the rolling curve, ..."
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