Associations to the word «Roulette»

ROULETTE, noun. (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.

ROULETTE, noun. (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.

ROULETTE, noun. (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.

ROULETTE, noun. (countable) (geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.

ROULETTE, noun. (stamp-collecting) any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.

ROULETTE, verb. To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.

ROULETTE WHEEL, noun. (gambling) a slotted wheel, that rotates horizontally; on which players bet on which slot the ball will stop in.

ROULETTE WHEELS, noun. Plural of roulette wheel

ROULETTE, noun. A line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure.

ROULETTE, noun. A wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations.

ROULETTE, noun. A gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in.