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Meaning of roulette

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

roulette

noun

Definitions

  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 produce rows of dots.

  3. A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.

  4. The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.

verb

Definitions

  1. To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.

    Example: to roulette a sheet of postage stamps