Riffle shuffle

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A technique of shuffling a deck of playing cards by first separating the deck into two parts.
  2. 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. 1
    To perform a riffle shuffle. transitive