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: ** 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) 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: **

Pin billiards Pin billiards may refer to any of a fairly large number of billiard games that uses a , or a set of "pins" or "s". The earliest form of billiards, ground billiards, was played with a single pin called the "king". Table billiards kept the king unti ...

, 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)

Mathematics and physics

Billiard (number) Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales. Most English variants use the short scale today, but the long scale remains dominant in many non-E ...

, 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

Harry Billiard Harry Pree Billiard (November 11, 1883 – June 3, 1923), nicknamed "Pree", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played in with the New York Highlanders of the American League, then in with the Indianapolis Hoosiers, continuing ...

(1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher *

Maria Duchêne-Billiard Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...

(1884–?), French contralto of the Metropolitan Opera * (née Billiard, 1884–1976), American painter, and wife of Robert Pelton Sibley * Efren Reyes Philippine Professional Billiard Player

Games

Mathematics and physics

People

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