billiard

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See also: billiárd and Billiard

English

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Etymology 1

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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).

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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

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From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (two) +‎ -illiard.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ɑː(ɹ)d/

Numeral

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billiard (plural billiards)

  1. (British, rare) 1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
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French

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French numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000,000 (109) [a], [b] ←  1012 1015 1018  → [a], [b] 1021  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: un billiard, un million de milliards
    Ordinal: billiardième, millionième de milliardième

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From bi- (two) +‎ -illiard.

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billiard m (plural billiards)

  1. quadrillion (1015)