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roulette |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roulette \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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roulette \Rou*lette"\, n. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roulette \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: roulette n 1: a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure [syn: {line roulette}] 2: a toothed wheel for making a row of perforations [syn: {toothed wheel}] 3: a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Roulette, PA Zip code(s): 16746
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