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Roulette, a game of chance, very popular in France last century, now at Monaco; played with a revolving disc and a ball.
- Wikipedia

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.

Rou*lette" (?), n. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.

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.

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.

Rou*lette" (?), n. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.

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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
  • (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
  • (countable) (geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.


Roulette


    German
  • roulette (game)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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