jacquard

Jacquard
    n 1: French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could
         automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) [syn:
         {Jacquard}, {Joseph M. Jacquard}, {Joseph Marie Jacquard}]
    2: a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
    3: a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the
       passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in
       weaving figured fabrics [syn: {Jacquard loom}, {Jacquard}]
    

Jacquard \Jac*quard"\, a.
   Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French
   mechanician, who died in 1834.
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   {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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