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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. Related Definitions: And, Another, Any, As, Ball, Black, By, Chance, Circle, Curve, Cycloid, Divided, Facilitate, Fixed, Game, Given, In, Indicating, Into, Is, It, Latter, Made, Make, Making, Mezzotint, Move, Numbered, Of, Off, On, One, Order, Over, Paper, Permitted, Plane, Plate, Point, Postage, Produce, Rapidly, Red, Result, Roll, Roughen, Roulette, Round, See, Separate, Separation, Sheet, Short, Similar, Sliding, Small, Surface, The, Their, To, Toothed, Traced, Used, Variety, Wheel, When, Which, With, Without |
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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 |
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Roulette Translations
roulette in Hungarian is rulett roulette in Spanish is ruleta roulette in Swedish is roulett |
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