A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...

"The Billiard Ball" is a science fiction short story by American author Isaac Asimov, written in September 1966 and first published in the March 1967...

The hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology (sometimes called the hedgehog theorem in Europe) states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent...

A billiard-ball computer, a type of conservative logic circuit, is an idealized model of a reversible mechanical computer based on Newtonian dynamics...

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards...

pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the...

World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), with multiple regional tours. The most prestigious nine-ball tournaments are the WPA World Nine-ball Championship...

wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded...

A dynamical billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between free motion (typically as a straight line) and specular reflections from...

eight-ball or 8 ball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eight-ball is a pool game played with a numbered solids-and-stripes ball set. Eight-ball, 8-ball,...

a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls). The object...

Polchinski considered a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball that is fired into a wormhole at just the right angle such that it will...

Look up Billiard, billiard, or billiards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billiard or billiards may refer to: A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports...

Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different...

Billington-Greig who had been a leading suffragette and was then married to a billiard ball manufacturer. Over the course of the 20th century, English billiards...

thought experiment involving a billiard ball sent back in time through a wormhole. In Polchinski's scenario, the billiard ball is fired into the wormhole...

The Albany Billiard Ball Company was an American manufacturer of billiard balls based in Albany, New York. The company was founded in 1868, manufacturing...

Toffoli (1982) proposed the billiard-ball computer as part of their investigations into reversible computing. A billiard-ball computer consists of a system...

Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard...

obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is billiard stick. The forerunner of the cue was the mace, an implement similar to...

English version of eight-ball has two main sets of playing rules used in professional play; those of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), known...

fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to...

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic is a book on magic written by magician Mark Wilson. The book is a popular reference for magicians and has been in...

there is a point where it is impossible to hit the billiard ball at another point, assuming the ball is point-like and continues infinitely rather than...

The Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is the governing body for cue sports in the United States and Canada, and the regional member organization of the...

"Anniversary" (Multivac series, Brandon, Shea & Moore series #2), "The Billiard Ball" (novelette), "Mirror Image" (Robot series #2.5) Have You Seen These...

The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women...

The WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a professional eight-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), initially contested...

modern pinball. In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table...

immediately after they succeed, Wayne and Gordon are shrunk when a billiard ball left on it falls onto the activating button, just as they are in front...