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Webster 1913 Edition


Billiard

Bil′liard

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.
“Smooth as is a billiard ball.”
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Billiard

BILL'IARD

, a bil'yard. Pertaining to the game of billiards.

Definition 2024


Billiard

Billiard

See also: billiard

German

Noun

Billiard n (genitive Billiards, no plural)

  1. billiards

Luxembourgish

Number

Billiard f (plural Billiarden)

  1. (cardinal) a short-scale quadrillion, 1015

billiard

billiard

See also: Billiard

English

Noun

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.
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Etymology 2

Numeral

billiard

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

See also

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

French

Numeral

billiard

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

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