Definitions for "Roulette"
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.
A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.
the slitting of paper between stamps to make their separation easier. No paper is actually removed in the rouletting process.
Stamps separated by a series of cuts instead of perforations.
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.
a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
(n) The curve generated by the rolling contact of one curve or line on another. Any point attached to the rolling curve will describe a roulette curve. The moving point is called the generating point. The roulette is constructed by moving the rolling curve to a number of new positions and plotting the corresponding positions of the generating point.
Roulette (real name: Jennifer Stavros) is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe. She was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema in New Mutants vol. 1 #16 (1984) for the antithesis to the New Mutants: the Hellions.
Roulette is a fictional character, a supervillainess in the DC Comics universe.
Roulette is a fictional character from the Wild Cards "mosaic novel" Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild. She was created by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
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