Milliard vs. Billiard

Milliard vs. Billiard — Is There a Difference?
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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 milliard

Billiardnoun

(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.

a billiard table; a billiard ball

Billiardnoun

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