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Braille

Audio Help [breyl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, Brailled, Braill·ing.

–noun

1.	Louis Audio Help [loo-is, loo-ee; Fr. lwee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, 1809–52, French teacher of the blind.

2.	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.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to write or transliterate in Braille characters.

Also, braille (for defs. 2, 3).

[Origin: 1850–55

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Braille or braille Audio Help (brāl) Pronunciation Key

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n. A system of writing and printing for blind or visually impaired people, in which varied arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numerals are identified by touch.

tr.v. Brailled or brailled, Braill·ing or braill·ing, Brailles or brailles
To print or transliterate using this system.

[After Louis Braille.]

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Braille, Louis 1809-1852.
French musician, educator, and inventor of a writing and printing system for blind or visually impaired people (1829). He lost his sight at the age of three.

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Braille

1853, from Louis Braille (1809-52), Fr. musician and teacher, blind from age 3, who devised it c.1830.

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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 (1809-1852)
2.	a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
verb
1.	transcribe in braille

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braille [breil] noun

a system of printing for the blind, using raised dots

Arabic:	طريقة برايل للقراءه
Chinese (Simplified):	（盲人用）点字
Chinese (Traditional):	(盲人用)點字
Czech:	slepecké písmo
Danish:	blindskrift
Dutch:	braille
Estonian:	pimedate kiri
Finnish:	sokeainkirjoitus
French:	braille
German:	die Blindenschrift
Greek:	σύστημα γραφής μπράιγ (για όσους αντιμετωπίζουν προβλ�
Hungarian:	vakírás
Icelandic:	blindraletur
Indonesian:	huruf braille
Italian:	braille

Japanese:	点字
Korean:	브라유식 점자(법)
Latvian:	Braila , * neredzīgo raksts
Lithuanian:	Brailio raštas
Norwegian:	blindeskrift
Polish:	alfabet Braille`a
Portuguese (Brazil):	braile
Portuguese (Portugal):	braille
Romanian:	Braille
Russian:	система шрифта для слепых
Slovak:	slepecké písmo
Slovenian:	Braillova pisava
Spanish:	Braille
Swedish:	blindskrift
Turkish:	Breyl Alfabesi, körler alfabesi

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
Braille

A system of writing and printing for the blind in which arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numbers can be identified by touch.

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braille 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.
British Royal National Institute for the Blind.
(1998-10-19)

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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.

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