Braille - Dictionary Definition and Overview
Braille :  (noun)
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: Braille, Louis Braille]
2: a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals [syn: Braille] (verb)

1: transcribe in Braille

Based on WordNet 2.0
Braille : \Braille\, n. A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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)">(http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/braille.htm).

(1998-10-19)



Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example Usage of Braille
xXPuNkRoCkZxX: The original back album cover of Wings' "Red Rose Speedway" contained a Braille message to Stevie Wonder that said "We love you, baby."
loverdos: Using the laptop on a base makes my neck feel better. Next step is Braille?
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