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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Half Ball Hit as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
A half ball hit is a hit with a contact angle between two balls equivalent to aiming the center of the cue ball directly towards the extreme edge of the object ball. When a ball is traveling with natural forward roll, such a half ball hit ultimately settles into a Carom angle of just over 30 degrees. The half ball hit is a very useful target reference for Carom because it offers such a large margin of error without much deviation in the resultant Carom angle even when the contact is either a little more or less than half a ball. The half ball hit is also notable because the carom angle the cue ball takes is more consistent than at other contact points.
You will want to hit the 5 ball with a hit that is just a little thinner than a half ball hit.
The half ball hit definition was entered on 4/16/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:49:22 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to billiard technique. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor.
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