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 

• LINE ROULETTE (noun)

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)