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English

Pronunciation


Noun

Braille or (especially US) braille

  1. A system of writing invented by w:Louis Braille|Louis Braille, in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.


Translations


Adjective

  1. Of, relating to or written in Braille.


See also


Category:English eponyms

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Dutch

Noun

Braille

  1. Braille


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Spanish

Noun

Braille m

  1. Braille
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English braille \braille\ v.
1. to transcribe in Braille.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet 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
Moby Dictionary
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


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)


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