billiard

See also: billiárd and Billiard

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

billiard (plural billiards)

  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.
    a billiard table; a billiard ball
  3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
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Etymology 2

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) +‎ -illiard.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ɑː(ɹ)d/

Numeral

billiard (plural billiards)

  1. (British, rare) 1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
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French
French numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000,000 (109) [a], [b], [c] ←  1012 1015 1018  → [a], [b], [c] 1021  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal (traditional spelling): un billiard, un million de milliards
    Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-billiard, un-million de milliards
    Ordinal: billiardième, millionième de milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1015

Etymology

From bi- (“two”) +‎ -illiard.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bi.ljaʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Numeral

billiard m (plural billiards)

  1. quadrillion (1015)
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