Definition of braille Braille

/bɹejˈl/ - [breyl] - Braille

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What does braille mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: brailles
braille - a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
		point system a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules
braille - 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)
		Louis Braille
Verb brailles, brailling, brailled
braille - transcribe in braille
		transliterate, transcribe rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

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braille
A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by using the fingertips.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

braille
brāl, n. and adj. a kind of type for the blind, having arbitrary signs consisting of varying combinations of six points arranged thus (), there being sixty-two possible combinations of these six points. [From Louis Braille, the inventor.]

Wikipedia

The braille system is a way of writing things. It is named after Louis Braille. It is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. Each braille character or "cell" is made up of six dot positions. The positions are set up in a rectangle. The rectangle is made of two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions. With this, it is possible to make sixty-four different letters. For reference purposes, a particular combination may be described by naming the positions where dots are raised, the positions being universally numbered 1 through 3 from top to bottom on the left, and 4 through 6 from top to bottom on the right. For example, dots 1-3-4 would describe a cell with three dots raised, at the top and bottom in the left column and on top of the right column.

The braille system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier. He made it because Napoleon wanted a code that soldiers could use to exchange messages silently and without light at night called night writing. Barbier's system was too complex for soldiers to learn. It was rejected by the military; in 1821 he visited the National Institute for the Blind in Paris, France, where he met Louis Braille. Louis identified the major failing of the code, which was that the human finger could not encompass the whole symbol without moving, and so could not move rapidly from one symbol to another. His change was to use a 6 dot cell — the braille system —