English Explanatory Dictionary

riffle shuffle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A technique of shuffling a deck of playing cards by first separating the deck into two parts.
  2. A permutation that models the outcome of a riffle shuffle; the operation of dividing an ordered set into two equal subsets and then alternately listing sequences of elements from each subset that have a common specified length.
verb
  1. To perform a riffle shuffle.

Word forms

riffle shuffle riffle shuffles riffle shuffling riffle shuffled
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