Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jacquard

3 senses of jacquard

Sense 1
Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard -- (French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2
jacquard -- (a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom)
       => fabric, cloth, material, textile -- (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress")

Sense 3
Jacquard loom, Jacquard -- (a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics)
       => loom -- (a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile)