ALL meanings of braille
Braille
B b - uncountable noun braille Braille is a system of printing for blind people. The letters are printed as groups of raised dots that you can feel with your fingers. 3
- noun braille a system of writing for the blind consisting of raised dots that can be interpreted by touch, each dot or group of dots representing a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark 3
- noun braille any writing produced by this method 3
- verb braille to print or write using this method 3
- noun braille Louis (lwi). 1809–52, French inventor, musician, and teacher of the blind, who himself was blind from the age of three and who devised the Braille system of raised writing 3
- noun braille a system of printing and writing for the blind, in which characters are formed by patterns of raised dots which are felt with the fingers 3
- noun braille the characters used in this system 3
- verb transitive braille to print or write in such characters 3
- noun braille Louis [loo-is,, loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu ɪs,, ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1809–52, French teacher of the blind. 1
- noun braille a system of writing or printing, devised by L. Braille for use by the blind, in which combinations of tangible dots or points are used to represent letters, characters, etc., that are read by touch. 1
- verb with object braille to write or transliterate in Braille characters. 1
- noun Definition of braille in Technology (human language) /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. 1
- noun braille A system of writing invented by 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. 0
- verb braille To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system. 0
- adjective braille Of, relating to or written in braille. 0