how to pronounce billiard

/ˈbɪl.i.əd/

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billiard is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of billiard in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… connects those two billiard balls that …”

meanings of billiard

noun:

Pertaining to the game of billiards.
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.

numeral:

10^15, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

billiard frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word billiard occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics billiard can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that billiard can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;