Roller (disambiguation)
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Roller may mean:
In biology:
- Roller, family of brightly coloured near passerine birds in the genera Coracias and Eurystomus
- Roller (pigeon), varieties of domestic pigeons that tumble or roll in flight
In industry:
- Roller (machine part), a cylindrical machine component or a component of a roller bearing
- Roller (agricultural tool), an agricultural or gardening implement for leveling ground
- Road roller, a heavy machine used in construction of roads and foundations
- steam roller, either a synonym for or type of road roller
- Rolling (metalworking), a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of cylindrical rolls, used in a steel mill
- wheel, a wheel, often trapped on an axle between two planes, on which a load can be carried and transported
As a personal surname:
- A. Clyde Roller, an American conductor and music educator
- Kyle Roller, baseball player
- Mihail Roller, Romanian communist politician
Other uses:
- A mathematical "roller" is a Curve of constant width
- Roller, an Autobot component of Optimus Prime
- Rollers can refer to a light bar specifically, and by extension, a Police Car
- a padded surcingle, that is used on horses for training and vaulting
- Bicycle rollers, a type of bicycle trainer
- Rollerball pens (or roller pens), a type of writing instrument
- Rolls-Royce, nickname for the motor car brand
- The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, officially nicknamed "Rollers"
- the Rollers, rock band which evolved from the Bay City Rollers
- Apache Roller, a blog server written in Java
- Hair roller, also known as hot roller, an implement used in hairdressing to curl hair
- Paint roller, a type of rotating paintbrush
- Roller (BEAM), a kind of robot that moves by rolling
- "Roller", an April Wine song
- Roller (Transformers), a fictional character
- Roller (album), an album by the Italian progressive rock band Goblin
See also
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