billiard-ball

Sweet Morgiana! the billiard-ball eyes had a tremendous effect on the Captain.

Mens Wives 2006

Honest Mr. Binnie made his appearance a short time before the appointed hour for receiving the guests, arrayed in a tight little pair of trousers, and white silk stockings and pumps, his bald head shining like a billiard-ball, his jolly gills rosy with good-humour.

The Newcomes 2006

LEVY: That ` s right, because also with shotgun wounds, you end up with this billiard-ball effect.

CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2006 2006

And with this, the excited young fellow knocked a billiard-ball across the table, and then laughed, and looked at his elder kinsman.

The Virginians 2006

Bet they've never heard of the billiard-ball effect.

Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

In other words, if you did an experiment that involved your object of mass m effectively with physics of about that sort of length scale (e.g. if the object itself is of roughly that size), the classical “billiard-ball” reasoning that we use for everyday things would be spectacularly wrong: Quantum effects would be important.

Bad Physics Joke Explained, Part I cjohnson 2005

A high-temperature gas-cooled reactor HTGRs, the heart of the system is a small core fed by low-enriched uranium fuel consisting of half-millimetre-sized particles of uranium dioxide encased in graphite and silicon carbide, which in turn are encased in billiard-ball sized graphite balls.

The joys of totalitarianism Richard 2005

"The pellets are spread out, " Scarpetta points out, -and to give the radiologist a little credit, the spread of the pellets inside the chest is consistent with a range of three or four feet, but what I think we're dealing with here is a perfect example of the billiard-ball effect.

Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

Instead of saying that one billiard-ball moves another by a force which it has derived from the author of nature, it is the Deity himself, they say, who, by a particular volition, moves the second ball, being determined to this operation by the impulse of the first ball, in consequence of those general laws which he has laid down to himself in the government of the universe.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

If I see a billiard-ball moving toward another, on a smooth table, I can easily conceive it to stop upon contact.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004