billiard

See also: Billiard

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

billiard (plural billiards)

1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
2. (attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.

   a billiard table; a billiard ball

3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

TranslationsEdit

a shot in billiards or snooker

• Finnish: kara (fi)

• French: carambole (fr) f (only in french billiard, a.k.a. carambole)

Etymology 2Edit

NumeralEdit

billiard (plural billiards)

1. (cardinal, Britain, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billions (long scale) or a million milliards.

TranslationsEdit

a million milliards

• Finnish: biljardi (fi)
• French: billiard (fr) m

• German: Billiarde (de) f
• Spanish: billardo m

See alsoEdit

• Previous: billion. Next: trillion.
• Symbolic: 10¹⁵ = 1,000,000,000,000,000

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bi.ljaʁ/

NumeralEdit

billiard

1. 10¹⁵, a thousand billion by the long scale, a short scale quadrillion.

Usage notesEdit

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• Next: trillion, 10¹⁸