Dictionary Definition
carom
Noun
1 a glancing rebound [syn: ricochet]
2 a shot in billiards in which the cue ball
contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: cannon]
Verb
1 rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off
several lampposts" [syn: glance]
2 make a carom
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- Probably corrupted from French carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.
Alternative spellings
Noun
Verb
- (intransitive) To make a carom.
to proceed in a regular and oscillatory manner,
usually at low frequency, as in the path of the sun around the
galactic centre (which takes 250 million years) with a bobbing
motion across the galactic plane of frequency 60 million years, ie
about four times every circuit. (See: Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan,
"Comet", p 298, First Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster 1986).
Extensive Definition
Carom may refer to:
- Ricochet
- Carom billiards
- Carom seeds or Ajwain, a spice
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
appulse, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bang, bang into, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into, cannon, cannon off, carambole, carom into,
clash, collide, collision, come into
collision, concuss,
concussion, confront
each other, contrecoup, crack up,
crack-up, crash, crash
into, crump, crunch, dap, dash into, encounter, fall foul of, fly
back, foul, glance, graze, hammering, have repercussions,
hit, hit against, hurt, hurtle, impact, impinge, impingement, kick, kick back, kickback, knock, knock against, lash back,
mauling, meet, meeting, onslaught, percuss, percussion, ramming, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, ricochet, run into, shock, sideswipe, skim, skip, slam into, sledgehammering, smack
into, smash, smash into,
smash up, smash-up, smashing, snap back, spring, spring back, strike, strike against, thrusting, whomp