Carom-ball
the ball struck by the cue ball in rebounding off the object ball.
Compare object ball (def 1).
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Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession. any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off. to make a carom. to strike and rebound. Contemporary Examples The Infiniti suddenly backed up into the radio cars then caromed forward into a turn. In Months Before […]
- Caroming
Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession. any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off. to make a carom. to strike and rebound. Historical Examples We simply fell over the cliff, plunging, caroming, and ricocheting down through the masses of vegetation. In Africa […]
- Caroni
a river in SE Venezuela, flowing N to the Orinoco River. 550 miles (885 km) long. Historical Examples Berreo reoccupied the site; and Keymis found the mouth of the caroni blocked, and guarded by a battery. Sir Walter Ralegh William Stebbing It was first founded by Jesuits in 1576, close to the confluence of the […]
- Carotenase
carotenase carotenase car·o·ten·ase (kār’ə-tē-nās’, kə-rŏt’n-ās’) n. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of beta-carotene to retinaldehyde by adding molecular oxygen.
- Carotene
any of three yellow or orange fat-soluble pigments having the formula C 40 H 56 , found in many plants, especially carrots, and transformed to vitamin A in the liver; provitamin A. noun any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted […]