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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jacquard \Jac*quard"\, a. Pertaining to or invented by Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. {Jacquard apparatus} or {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.
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