Source : WordNet®

Jacquard loom
     n : a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the
         passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in
         weaving figured fabrics [syn: {Jacquard}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Jacquard loom
     
         /zhah-kar'/ A mechanical loom, invented by
        {Joseph-Marie Jacquard} in 1801, which used the holes punched
        in pasteboard {punch cards} (which see) to control the weaving
        of patterns in fabric.  It was the first machine to use punch
        cards, although it did no computation based on them.
     
        {(http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/loom.htm)}.
     
        (1998-10-19)