What is "jasper"

Wedgwood ware \Wedg"wood` ware`\ [From the name of the inventor, Josiah Wedgwood, of England.] A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.

masc. proper name, English form of Caspar or of Gaspar, the traditional name of one of the Three Kings. Said by Klein to be of Persian origin and meaning literally "treasure-holder." Used from 1896 for "a rustic simpleton."

precious stone, c.1300, from Anglo-French jaspre, Old French jaspre, jaspe, from Latin iaspidem (nominative iaspis), from Greek iaspis "jasper," via an Oriental language (compare Hebrew yashpeh, Akkadian yashupu).

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian. 2 (context mineralogy English) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. 3 jasperware pottery. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context UK West Country Somerset colloquial English) A wasp. 2 (context US slang English) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

n. an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

Jasper is an opaque mineral.

Jasper may also refer to:

In the field of computer software, JasPer - a project to create a reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e. ISO/IEC 15444-1) - started in 1997 at Image Power Inc. and at the University of British Columbia. It consists of a C library and some sample applications useful for testing the codec.

The license changed in early 2004 to an MIT License-style one, in response to requests from the open-source community. JasPer operated as a component of many software projects, both free and proprietary, including (but not limited to) netpbm (as of release 10.12), ImageMagick and KDE (as of version 3.2). the GEGL graphics library supported JasPer in its latest Git versions.

In a series of objective JPEG-2000-compression quality tests conducted in 2004, "JasPer was the best codec, closely followed by IrfanView and Kakadu". However, Jasper remains one of the slowest implementations of the JPEG-2000 codec, as it was designed for reference, not performance.

Jasper is a given name commonly believed to be of ancient Persian origin, meaning "Treasurer".

Famous people with the name Jasper or variants include:

Jasper is a residential skyscraper located at 45 Lansing Street in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. The tower contains 320 residential units on 39 floors.

Jasper is an Indian film actor, who has appeared in character roles primarily as a supporting antagonist. He weighs 165 kg and directors have often used his weight, to give him roles as a henchman.