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Milliard vs Billiard - What's the difference?

milliard | billiard |

As numerals the difference between milliard and billiard

is that milliard is 109, a thousand times a million. (Now generally replaced by {{term|billion}}. while billiard is 1015, a million milliards.

As a noun billiard is

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

milliard

English

Numeral

(en noun)
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 155:
  • *:For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

    • Derived terms

    * milliardth

    See also

    * Previous': million. ' Next : billion. * Symbolic: 109 = 1,000,000,000

    Synonyms

    * a billion

    billiard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
  • Pertaining to the game of billiards.
    • a billiard''' table; a '''billiard ball

    Numeral

    (en-number)
  • 1015, a million milliards.

    • Derived terms

    * billiardth

    See also

    * Previous': billion. ' Next : trillion. * Symbolic: 1015 = 1,000,000,000,000,000