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LINE ROULETTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does line roulette mean?
• LINE ROULETTE (noun)
The noun LINE ROULETTE has 1 sense:
1. a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
Familiarity information: LINE ROULETTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
line roulette; roulette
Hypernyms ("line 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 "line 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)
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