Braille

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Braille
    n 1: French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and
         who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless
         people (1809-1852) [syn: {Braille}, {Louis Braille}]
    2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots
       represent letters and numerals
    v 1: transcribe in braille

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Braille \Braille\, n.
   A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the
   characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised
   tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a
   French teacher of the blind.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

braille \braille\ v.
   1. to transcribe in Braille.
      [WordNet 1.5]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

braille

   <human language> /breyl/ (Often capitalised) A class of
   {writing systems}, intended for use by blind and low-vision
   users, which express {glyphs} as raised dots.  Currently
   employed braille standards use eight dots per cell, where a
   cell is a glyph-space two dots across by four dots high; most
   glyphs use only the top six dots.

   Braille was developed by Louis Braille (pronounced /looy
   bray/) in France in the 1820s.  Braille systems for most
   languages can be fairly trivially converted to and from the
   usual script.

   Braille has several totally coincidental parallels with
   digital computing: it is {binary}, it is based on groups of
   eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the
   same time {Charles Babbage} proposed the {Difference Engine}.

   Computers output Braille on {braille displays} and {braille
   printers} for hard copy.

   British Royal National Institute for the Blind
   (http://rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/braille.htm).

   (1998-10-19)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "Braille":
      Boston type, New York point, Optacon, Pathsounder, Seeing Eye dog,
      Visotoner, cane, embosser, guide dog, high-speed embosser,
      line letter, noctograph, optophone, personal sonar, sensory aid,
      sight-saver type, string alphabet, talking book,
      ultrasonic spectacles, visagraph, writing frame, writing stamps