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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Garnet \Gar"net\, n. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out {Clew garnet}. See under {Clew}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Garnet \Gar"net\, n. [OE. gernet, grenat, OF grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL granatus fr L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, fr granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See {Grain}, and cf {Grenade}, {Pomegranate}.] (Min.) A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms. Note: There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was in part the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate. {Garnet berry} (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color. {Garnet brown} (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: garnet n : any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Garnet 1. A graphical object editor and {Macintosh} environment. 2. A user interface development environment for {Common Lisp} and {X11} from The Garnet project team. It helps you create graphical, interactive user interfaces. Version 2.2 includes the following: a custom {object-oriented programming} system which uses a {prototype-instance model}. automatic {constraint} maintenance allowing properties of objects to depend on properties of other objects and be automatically re-evaluated when the other objects change. The constraints can be arbitrary Lisp expressions. Built-in, high-level input event handling. Support for {gesture recognition}. {Widget}s for multi-font, multi-line, mouse-driven text editing. Optional automatic layout of application data into lists, tables, trees or graphs. Automatic generation of {PostScript} for printing. Support for large-scale applications and data {visualisation}. Also supplied are: two complete widget sets, one with a {Motif} {look and feel} implemented in {Lisp} and one with a custom {look and feel}. Interactive design tools for creating parts of the interface without writing code: Gilt interface builder for creating {dialog box}es. Lapidary interactive tool for creating new {widget}s and for drawing application-specific objects. C32 {spreadsheet} system for specifying complex {constraint}s. Not yet available: Jade automatic dialog box creation system. Marquise interactive tool for specifying behaviours. {(ftp://a.gp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/garnet/garnet)}. (1999-07-02)
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