garnet

garnet
    n 1: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of
         various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
    

Garnet \Gar"net\, n. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)
   A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
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   {Clew garnet}. See under {Clew}.
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Garnet \Gar"net\, n. [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F.
   grenat, LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus
   having many grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So
   called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains
   or seeds of the pomegranate. See {Grain}, and cf. {Grenade},
   {Pomegranate}.] (Min.)
   A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in
   their constituents, but with the same crystallization
   (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical
   formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous,
   and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The
   dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.
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   Note: There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black
         varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being
         aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon
         stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron
         (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or
         iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or
         chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The
         transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet
         was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is
         a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate.
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   {Garnet berry} (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its
      transparent red color.

   {Garnet brown} (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as
      an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or
      golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a
      complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.
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Garnet

   1. A graphical object editor and {Macintosh} environment.

   2. A user interface development environment for {Common Lisp}
   and {X11} from The Garnet project team.  It helps you create
   graphical, interactive user interfaces.

   Version 2.2 includes the following: a custom {object-oriented
   programming} system which uses a {prototype-instance model}.
   automatic {constraint} maintenance allowing properties of
   objects to depend on properties of other objects and be
   automatically re-evaluated when the other objects change.  The
   constraints can be arbitrary Lisp expressions.  Built-in,
   high-level input event handling.  Support for {gesture
   recognition}.  {Widgets} for multi-font, multi-line,
   mouse-driven text editing.  Optional automatic layout of
   application data into lists, tables, trees or graphs.
   Automatic generation of {PostScript} for printing.  Support
   for large-scale applications and data {visualisation}.

   Also supplied are: two complete widget sets, one with a
   {Motif} {look and feel} implemented in {Lisp} and one with a
   custom {look and feel}.  Interactive design tools for creating
   parts of the interface without writing code: Gilt interface
   builder for creating {dialog box}es.  Lapidary interactive
   tool for creating new {widgets} and for drawing
   application-specific objects.  C32 {spreadsheet} system for
   specifying complex {constraints}.

   Not yet available: Jade automatic dialog box creation system.
   Marquise interactive tool for specifying behaviours.

   (ftp://a.gp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/garnet/garnet).

   (1999-07-02)