Billiard Explained
Billiard or billiards may refer to:
Cue Sports
- A, a type of shot in cue sports (see below)
- Billiards: cue sports in general; the term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically:
- Carom billiards (also known as French billiards), games in general (a chiefly non-British usage)
- Three-cushion billiards, even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide
- The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage)
- Pool (cue sports) (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
- See the list of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically:
- Pin billiards, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of pins or "skittles"
- Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards
- Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball (from électrique in French, in which pinball is today called flipper, a borrowing from English)
- Billiard table: The bounded table on which cue sports are played
Lawn Sports
Historically, Billiards was a term used for both cue and lawn sports such as
Mathematics and physics
- Billiard (number), the long-scale name used in most European languages for the number 1015 (called quadrillion in the short scale generally used in English)
- Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary
People
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