billiard vs carom

billiard

noun
  • A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom. 

  • A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary. 

  • Pertaining to the game of billiards. 

num
  • 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard. 

carom

noun
  • A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. 

  • ajwain 

  • A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter. 

verb
  • To make a carom (shot in billiards). 

  • To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound. 

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