any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations
A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots
A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint
a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
{i} casino game comprised of a spinning numbered wheel and a marble (players must guess on which number or color the marble will stop)
engraving tool with revolving toothed head which punches regular holes along the outline of the drawing to be transferred by pouncing
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. see also Russian roulette. Gambling game. After a small ball is released in the opposite direction of a revolving wheel, players make bets concerning which red or black numbered compartment the ball will enter as it comes to rest. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel. Roulette (French: "small wheel") emerged in the late 18th century in the casinos of Europe. All bets are placed against the "house," or casino bank. Bets may be made until the ball slows down and is about to drop from its track into a compartment. Bets may be on a single number or various combinations of numbers that pay off at lesser odds if the winner is among them. Betting that red or black or that an odd or even number will come up are other options
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
the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve
(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
wheels have sharp jagged patterns of points used to make a pitted textures on metal plates used in intaglio printing (empty) Back to Top - S -
Let C1 be a curve and C2 a second curve Then if P is a point on C2, a roulette is the curve traced out by P as C2 rolls on C1 A cycloid is the roulette of a point on a circle rolling along a straight line Epicycloids, hypocycloids, epitrochoids and hypotrochoids are all roulettes of a circle rolling on another circle