billiard

(Engels)

Noun

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.
3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Num

10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/

Etymologie (Engels)

Verwant aan Oudiers: bile

In summary

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”).

Concepten

biljart

biljard

biljartspel

Synoniemen

quadrillion

snooker

Vertalingen

billar

Billard

bilardo

billard

billards

billiard

biliardi

biliardo

carambola

bilyar

bilhar

billares

Karambolagen

μπιλιάρδο

Billiarde