garnet

garnet

¹

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

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garnet

²

Nautical a tackle used for lifting cargo

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garnet

[′gär·nət]

(mineralogy)

A generic name for a group of mineral silicates that are isometric in crystallization and have the general chemical formula A₃B₂(SiO₄)₃, where A is Fe²⁺, Mn²⁺, Mg, or Ca, and B is Al, Fe³⁺, Cr³⁺, or Ti³⁺; used as a gemstone and as an abrasive.

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garnet

A mineral having many varieties in color and constituents but the same general chemical formula, with an isometric crystal structure.

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garnet

January. [Am. Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 319–320]

See: Birthstones

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Garnet

(1)

A graphical object editor and Macintosh environment.

Garnet

(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.

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