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ROULETTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("roulette" is a kind of...):
gambling game; game of chance (a game that involves gambling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
Synonyms:
roulette; toothed wheel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("roulette" is a kind of...):
wheel (a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
Synonyms:
line roulette; roulette
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("roulette" is a kind of...):
curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roulette"):
cycloid (a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line)
epicycloid (a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle)
hypocycloid (a line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle)
