Jacquard may refer to:
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Albert Jacquard
Albert Jacquard (23 December 1925 – 11 September 2013) was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist.
He was well known for defending ideas related to science, degrowth, needy persons and the environment. He was 10 years an ac ...
(1925-2013), French geneticist and essayist
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
Joseph Marie Charles ''dit'' (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the " Jacquard loom"), which in tu ...
(1752-1834), French weaver and inventor of the Jacquard loom
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Robert Jacquard (born 1958), American politician
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A M Jacquard Systems
AM Jacquard Systems, originally Jacquard Systems, was an American manufacturer and vendor of small office computer systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The systems were sold with ''Type-Rite'', a word processing system and ''Data-Rite'', a d ...
, former American manufacturer of small office computer systems
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Project Jacquard, a series of smart textile technologies by Google Advanced Technology and Projects
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Jacquard loom
The Jacquard machine () is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Ja ...
, a power loom attachment that allows the manufacture of intricate patterns
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Jaccard (disambiguation)
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Surnames of French origin