Braille

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 (1809-152) [syn: {Louis Braille}]
       2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots
          represent letters and numerals
       v : transcribe in Braille

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  braille
       
           /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://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/braille.htm)}.
       
          (1998-10-19)