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Definition roulette

Etymology

Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”).

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. (philately) Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
6. A cylindrical curler for the hair.

Verb

roulette (third-person singular simple present roulettes, present participle rouletting, simple past and past participle rouletted)

1. To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.

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