German

Noun

Roulette n ‎(genitive Roulettes, plural Roulettes)

1. (gambling) roulette.

English

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

   to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

See also

• cycloid
• epicycloid
• hypocycloid
• Wikipedia article on roulette, the game
• Wikipedia article on roulettes in geometry

French

Etymology

rouler +‎ -ette

Noun

roulette f ‎(plural roulettes)

1. small wheel
2. caster, castor
3. (geometry, archaic) cycloid
4. roulette (game)
5. roulette wheel
6. (engraving) roulette
7. roller

   patin à roulettes‎ ― roller skating

8. (dentistry) dentist drill
9. pastry roller

Synonyms

• rouette

Derived terms

References

• WordReference, roulette

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French roulette.

Noun

roulette f ‎(invariable)

1. roulette (game of chance)

Derived terms

• roulette russa ‎(“Russian roulette”)

Anagrams

• tutelerò