billiard vs waver

billiard

noun
  • 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. 

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

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

waver

noun
  • An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. 

  • Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). 

  • Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. 

  • A tool that accomplishes hair waving. 

verb
  • To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. 

  • To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch. 

  • To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice. 

  • To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way. 

  • To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate. 

  • To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light. 

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