Garnet

4 definitions found

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

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

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  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}.  {Widget}s 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 {widget}s and for drawing
          application-specific objects.  C32 {spreadsheet} system for
          specifying complex {constraint}s.
       
          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)