Thesaurus: jacquard

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1. a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
2. n. a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
3. n. a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
4. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or 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. -- Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.
5. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician,who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device appliedto looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanismcontrolled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause thewarp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing therequired figure.-- Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquardapparatus.-- Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.
6. n:100 n. French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) n. a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom