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jacquard

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun jacquard has 3 senses

jacquard(n = noun.person) joseph m. jacquard, joseph marie jacquard - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834); Array

is a kind of artificer, discoverer, inventor

jacquard(n = noun.artifact) Array - a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom; Array

jacquard(n = noun.artifact) jacquard loom - a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics; Array

is a kind of loom

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jacquard, a.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. [1913 Webster]

Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure. -- Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus. -- Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

jacquard, n.
1 an apparatus with perforated cards, fitted to a loom to facilitate the weaving of figured fabrics.
2 (in full Jacquard loom) a loom fitted with this.
3 a fabric or article made with this, with an intricate variegated pattern.

Etymology

J. M. Jacquard, Fr. inventor d. 1834

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