I. ˈbrāl, esp bef pause or cons -āəl noun
( -s )
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: after Louis Braille died 1852 French teacher of the blind, who invented it
: a system of writing for the blind that uses characters made up of raised dots in a 6-dot cell arranged in two vertical columns and that has been adapted for writing various languages and for transcribing music, mathematics, and scientific symbols — see emboss , grade , interpoint , sign , stereotyper , transcriber , word-sign
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braille alphabet
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II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Usage: sometimes capitalized
: to transcribe or write in braille characters