Definition of Roulette

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Roulette

A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.

To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.

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.

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.

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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Roulette Quotations

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
Ramman Kenoun

Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn

Roulette Translations

roulette in Hungarian is rulett
roulette in Spanish is ruleta
roulette in Swedish is roulett

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