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Jac*quard" (?), a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.Jacquard apparatus ∨ 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.


The noun has 3 senses

1. jacquard -- a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
2. Jacquard, Joseph_M._Jacquard, Joseph_Marie_Jacquard -- French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
3. Jacquard_loom, Jacquard -- a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

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