Billiard or billiards may refer to:
Games
* 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:
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Carom billiards (also known as French billiards), games in general (a chiefly non-British usage)
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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)
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Pool (cue sports)
Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in it ...
(pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
* See the
list of cue sports
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions of ...
for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically:
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Pin billiards, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of "pins", or "skittles"
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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)
Mathematics and physics
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Billiard (number), the long-scale name used in most European languages for the number 10
15 (called quadrillion in the short scale generally used in English)
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Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary
People
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Harry Billiard (1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Maria Duchêne-Billiard (1884–?), French contralto of the Metropolitan Opera
* (née Billiard, 1884–1976), American painter, and wife of
Robert Pelton Sibley
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Efren Reyes Philippine Professional Billiard Player
See also
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Billiards World Cup Association, a governing body for carom billiards
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Billard
Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later ...
, a French rolling stock construction company
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Bobbi Billard (born 1975), American model
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