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...
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Carom billiards (redirect from Carambole billiard)
family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or...
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Dynamical billiards (redirect from Dynamical billiard table)
reflections with the boundary (a geodesic if the Riemannian metric of the billiard table is not flat). All reflections are specular: the angle of incidence just...
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Cue sports (redirect from Billiard chalk)
played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions...
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table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public billiards tables; see billiard hall.). The billiard room...
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Pool (cue sports) (redirect from Pocket billiard)
Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of...
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Three-cushion billiards (redirect from Three cushion billiard)
Award-winning Spanish film Seven Billiard Tables (Siete mesas de billar francés), about a woman who inherits a troubled billiard hall and is searching for her...
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Glossary of cue sports terms (redirect from Billiard glossary)
billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table,...
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English billiards (section Balls and table)
early 18th century. One period advertisement read: "A very good French Billiard Table, little the worse for wearing, full size, with all the materials fit...
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Russian pyramid (redirect from Russian Billiard)
билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is played across Russia and several former Soviet/Eastern...
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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...
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traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long...
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Artistic billiards is a cue sport played on a billiard table. A discipline of carom billiards, players aim to recreate a portion of 76 pre-set shots of...
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Pendant light (redirect from Billiard light)
fluorescent or multiple incandescent bulbs, used over kitchen islands and billiard tables. They are sometimes considered a type of chandelier. It is a key component...
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1515% (1 in 660) on the Great Western main line, nicknamed Brunel's Billiard Table, because the early locomotives (and their brakes) were feeble. Steep...
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lows) is 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)...
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List of furniture types (section Tables)
Headboard Infant bed (crib, cradle) Sofa bed Toddler bed Billiard table Celestial globe Chess table Entertainment center Gramophone Hi-fi Jukebox Pinball...
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played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball. In a one-cushion shot...
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at tables along the walls to the left and right, with Ginoux, the landlord said to be depicted (standing) in it, to one side of a billiard table near...
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Brunswick Corporation (redirect from Great Western Billiard Manufactory)
billiard tables would be more lucrative, as the better tables then in use in the United States were imported from England. Brunswick billiard tables were...
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Seven Billiard Tables (Spanish: Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Gracia Querejeta. She also co-wrote...
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Snookball is a ball sport that is played on a billiard table, combining elements of snooker and association football. In 2014, snookball was founded by...
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gets kind of meta: She considers not just one billiard table, but the universe of all possible billiard tables. And the kind of dynamics she studies doesn't...
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use this wall to bank balls similarly to how billiard balls are played off the cushions of a billiard table. The wickets, called arches, are permanently...
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basic functions of a computer database Crud (game), a game played on a billiard table CRUD (radio station), a former radio station of Rochdale College in...
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to their Los Angeles and Sausalito properties, adding a Jacuzzi and billiard table. Stone later said of Kellgren, "He single-handedly was responsible for...
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is played on a pocketless unmarked billiard table, usually 10 by 5 feet (3.0 m × 1.5 m) in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves...
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of it. It was a perfect natural landing field [...] as smooth as a billiard table without anything being done to it. The lake bed made an ideal strip...
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Logarithm (redirect from Logarithm Table in Trigonometry)
of a dynamical system. For example, for a particle moving on an oval billiard table, even small changes of the initial conditions result in very different...
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theatrical notables, and maintains a kitchen and wine cellar and a billiard table in its usually busy Grill Room. In the Dining Room, filled with portraits...
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