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Monday, 27 December 2010 16:39 |
Billiard or billiards may refer to:
* A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports (see below) * Billiards: Cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, etc. The term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically:
* Carom billiards (also known as French billiards) games in general (a chiefly non-British usage, in the North America, the British Commonwealth, etc.) * The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British and Commonwealth English usage) * Pool (pocket billiards) games (such as eight-ball and nine-ball) in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
* Billiard, the (chiefly French) long-scale name for the number 1015 in mathematics (called "quadrillion" in short scale)
* Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary, in theoretical physics (contrast this mass noun with the count noun "dynamical billiard", below)
* A dynamical billiard, any of several systems of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary
* Nicolas billiards, an obscure French board game invented in 1895, and of no relation to the games above (see its French article for an illustration) * Indian (or Nepalese) finger billiards, the board game better known as carrom. * Electric billiards, an obscure term for pinball (from the French billard électrique, who today call pinball flipper, a borrowing from English) (wikipedia)
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