The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jacquard \Jac*quard"\, a.
   Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French
   mechanician, who died in 1834.
   [1913 Webster]

   Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device
      applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of
      mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated
      cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the
      proper succession for producing the required figure.

   Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard
      apparatus.

   Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Jacquard loom
    n 1: 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 loom, Jacquard]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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://history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/loom.htm).

   (1998-10-19)