Billiard

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Billiard or billiards (as a noun, adjective or verb) may refer to:

• A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports (such as pool, carom billiards and snooker)
• A dynamical billiard, any of several systems of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary, in theoretical physics (contrast this count noun with the mass noun "dynamical billiards", below)
• Billiard, the (chiefly French) long-scale name for the number 10¹⁵ in mathematics (called "quadrillion" in short scale)

Billiards (as a noun or adjective) may refer to:

• Cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, etc.

• Carom billiards (also known as French billiards) games in general (a chiefly non-British usage, in the US, the British Commonwealth, etc., but rarely in England itself)
• The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British usage)
• Pocket billiards (pool) games (such as eight-ball, nine-ball and snooker) in general (a chiefly colloquial American usage)
• Italian billiards or five-pins
• Russian billiards or Russian pyramid
• Artistic billiards

• 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", above)
• 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, and obscure term for pinball (from the French billard électrique, who today call pinball flipper, a borrowing from English)