billiard
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /ˈbɪlɪəd/ / /ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/ / /ˈbɪl.i.ɑː(ɹ)d/
noun
Etymology: From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, 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”).
- A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
- 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.
num
Etymology: From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.
- 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.