Riffle shuffle
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
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. transitive