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Jacquard adj. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 18th, Mr. Stephenson passed through with the first locomotive. The second tube was proceeded with on the removal of the first from the platform, and was completed and floated in seven months. The rapidity with which this second tube was constructed was in no small degree owing to the Jacquard punching-machine, contrived for the purpose by Mr. Roberts of Manchester. This tube was finally fixed in its permanent bed on the 2nd ...

— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

Words linked to "Jacquard" : Joseph M. Jacquard, artificer, inventor, fabric, Jacquard loom, discoverer, loom, material