Caroming

/ˈkærəmɪŋ/ verb

Definition

The action of bouncing or ricocheting; striking and bouncing off in billiards.

Etymology

Present participle of 'carom,' formed by adding the suffix '-ing' to create the ongoing or habitual form of the verb.

Kelly Says

The physics of 'caroming' shots fascinated Victorian mathematicians so much that billiards treatises included complex geometry diagrams—players calculated angles like engineers, turning pool into applied mathematics!

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