Meaning

A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

a billiard table; a billiard ball

Word Forms

• billiards

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