Braille

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Louis Braille

2. 2

   Alternative letter-case form of braille.

3. 3

   A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by…

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

   • Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books.
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   1. 4

      To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.

      • I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.
      • the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled
   2. 5

      to identify something by touch.

   3. 6

      Of, relating to or written in braille.

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