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jacquard
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jacquard \Jac*quard"\, a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement , a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jacquard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French weaver and inventor of the Jacquard loom Albert Jacquard (born 1925), French geneticist and essayist
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1841, from Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) of Lyons, inventor of new weaving technology c.1800.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Fabric woven on a jacquard loom. 2 Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process. 3 A jacquard loom.
Usage examples of jacquard.
And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world.
Ada Checkers, the tailors called them, the Lady having created the pattern by programming a Jacquard loom to weave pure algebra.
The mechanism of the Jacquard loom replaces the draw-loom mechanism, necking box through draw-boy.
Like a punched card fed into a jacquard loom, it ceased to be an abstract message and became a part of the machine.
Roberts added a useful companion to the Jacquard punching machine, in his combined self-acting machine for shearing iron and punching both webs of angle or T iron simultaneously to any required pitch.
From Vaucanson's mechanical loom for figured silks to Jacquard to the drum roll on the player piano to the punched data card in the first computers: in part, the digital age owes its existence to the arts.