• Roulette

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -É›t

    Origin

    French roulette, roulette, little wheel

    Full definition of roulette

    Noun

    roulette

    (countable and uncountable; plural roulettes)
    1. (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.
    2. (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
    3. (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
    4. (countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
    5. (stamp-collecting) any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
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