"roulette" Definition

Definitions for the word "roulette" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving numbered wheel. [french, = little wheel]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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