Billiard

A billiard, a sort of shot in cue sports (see below)
Billiards: cue sports normally, together with pool, carom table game, snooker, etc.; the term "billiards" by itself is additionally generally accustomed consult with any of the subsequent additional specifically:
Carom table game (also called French billiards) games normally (a mainly non-British usage)
Three-cushion table game even additional specifically, the foremost common kind of carom table game worldwide (the most typical specific usage)
The specific game of English table game (a mainly British, Irish and Australian usage)
Pool (pocket billiards) games, like eight-ball and nine-ball, normally (a mainly informal North yankee usage)
Electric table game, associate degree obsolete term for pinball game (from billard électrique in French, during which pinball game is nowadays known as flipper, a borrowing from English)
Mathematics and physics[edit]
Billiard, the long-scale name utilized in most European languages (chiefly French, Spanish, German and Dutch) for the quantity 1015 in arithmetic (called "quadrillion" within the short scale usually utilized in English).
Dynamical table game, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories at intervals a closed reflective boundary, in theoretical physics (contrast this noun with the noun "dynamical billiard", below).
A resurgent table game, any of many systems of particle trajectories at intervals a closed reflective boundary.