braille : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: braille	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for braille
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Braille n French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) Synonym(s): Braille, Louis Braille a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals v transcribe in braille
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)