billiard
Meanings
Plural: billiards
Adjective
- of or relating to billiards
- "a billiard ball"
- "a billiard cue"
- "a billiard table"
Noun
- A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
- Pertaining to the game of billiards.
- A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
Num
- 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
Origin / Etymology
From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
Synonyms
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Scrabble Score: 11
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Words With Friends Score: 14
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