What (who) is russisches Roulette - definition
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Roulette (song); Roulette (film); Roulette (Smallville)
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GAME OF CHANCE
Roulett; Online roulette; Roulette wheel; Professional Roulette System JetSet & Utopia; Corner Bet; Carre Bet; French roulette; European roulette; American roulette
Roulette is a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a wheel with numbered holes in it while the wheel is spinning round. The players bet on which hole the ball will be in when the wheel stops spinning.
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see also Russian roulette
Roulette
GAME OF CHANCE
Roulett; Online roulette; Roulette wheel; Professional Roulette System JetSet & Utopia; Corner Bet; Carre Bet; French roulette; European roulette; American roulette
·noun A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
II. Roulette ·noun A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
III. Roulette ·add. ·noun A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.
IV. Roulette ·add. ·vt To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.
V. Roulette ·noun 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.
VI. Roulette ·noun 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.
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GAME OF CHANCE
Roulett; Online roulette; Roulette wheel; Professional Roulette System JetSet & Utopia; Corner Bet; Carre Bet; French roulette; European roulette; American roulette
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1. a gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball comes to rest.
2. a tool or machine with a revolving toothed wheel, used in engraving or for making perforations between postage stamps.
¦ verb use a roulette to make perforations in.
Origin
C18: from Fr., dimin. of rouelle 'wheel'.
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Roulette (disambiguation)
Roulette is a popular game of chance in casinos.
Roulette may also refer to:
