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riffle shuffle

noun riffle shuffles

  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 riffle shuffles · riffle shuffling · riffle shuffled

  1. transitive To perform a riffle shuffle.

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@misc{riffle_shuffle_2026,
  title = {riffle shuffle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/riffle%20shuffle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}