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biljardi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • billiard adj Relating to the game of billiards.
  • billiards noun A cue sport played on a table with balls that are struck to score points, in various forms such as pool and snooker.
  • pool noun A small body of still water, or a purpose-built structure for swimming.
  • quadrillion num A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.

Senses

biljardi is used for these senses in English:

  • billiard (British, rare) 1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
  • billiards (games, British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
  • pool (sport) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
  • quadrillion (US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015.

billiard — full definition

  1. adj Relating to the game of billiards.
  2. noun A shot in billiards or snooker where the cue ball strikes two other balls in succession; a carom.

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