billiard

See also: Billiard

English

Etymology 1

Noun

billiard (plural billiards)

A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.
a billiard table; a billiard ball
A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Translations

a shot in billiards or snooker

Finnish: kara (fi)

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

Etymology 2

Numeral

billiard (plural billiards)

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

Translations

a million milliards

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

German: Billiarde (de) f
Spanish: billardo m

See also

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

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bi.ljaʁ/

Numeral

billiard

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

Usage notes

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Next: trillion, 10¹⁸

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