ALL meanings of garnet
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G g - noun garnet Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist. 1
- noun Definition of garnet in Technology 1. A graphical object editor and Macintosh environment. 2. A user interface development environment for Common Lisp and X11 from The Garnet project team. It helps you create graphical, interactive user interfaces. Version 2.2 includes the following: a custom object-oriented programming system which uses a prototype-instance model. automatic constraint maintenance allowing properties of objects to depend on properties of other objects and be automatically re-evaluated when the other objects change. The constraints can be arbitrary Lisp expressions. Built-in, high-level input event handling. Support for gesture recognition. Widgets for multi-font, multi-line, mouse-driven text editing. Optional automatic layout of application data into lists, tables, trees or graphs. Automatic generation of PostScript for printing. Support for large-scale applications and data visualisation. Also supplied are: two complete widget sets, one with a Motif look and feel implemented in Lisp and one with a custom look and feel. Interactive design tools for creating parts of the interface without writing code: Gilt interface builder for creating dialog boxes. Lapidary interactive tool for creating new widgets and for drawing application-specific objects. C32 spreadsheet system for specifying complex constraints. Not yet available: Jade automatic dialog box creation system. Marquise interactive tool for specifying behaviours. 1
- noun garnet A precious stone consisting of a deep red vitreous silicate mineral. 1
- noun garnet dark red gemstone 1
- adjective garnet dark red in colour 1
- noun garnet dark red colour 1
- noun garnet (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives. 0
- noun garnet A dark red. 0
- noun garnet (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out. 0
- adjective garnet Of a dark red colour. 0
- countable noun garnet A garnet is a hard, shiny stone that is used in making jewellery. Garnets can be red, yellow, or green in colour. 0
- noun garnet any of a group of hard glassy red, yellow, or green minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, manganese, chromium, magnesium, and aluminium in cubic crystalline form: used as a gemstone and abrasive. Formula: A3B2(SiO4)3 where A is a divalent metal and B is a trivalent metal 0
- noun garnet a tackle used for lifting cargo 0
- noun garnet any of a group of very hard silicate minerals having the general formula A3B2(SiO4)3, occurring chiefly as well-formed crystals in metamorphic rocks: red varieties are often used as gems, ordinary varieties as abrasives 0
- noun garnet a deep red 0
- noun garnet a single-crystal synthetic form used in lasers, electronics, etc. 0
- noun garnet a hoisting tackle for loading cargo 0