Milliard vs. Billiard

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Difference Between Milliard and Billiard
Milliardnumeral
109, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)
Billiardnoun
A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
Milliardnoun
a billion;
in England they call one thousand million a milliardBilliardnoun
(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.
a billiard table; a billiard ballBilliardnoun
A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
Billiardnumeral
1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
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Billiardadjective
of or relating to billiards;
a billiard balla billiard cuea billiard table