UEB Glossary

Collection of terms and explanations helping to clarify the transition from EBAE to UEB




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alphabetic

designating letters of the alphabet, including modified letters, ligatured letters and contractions, which stand for letters 

alphabetic wordsign

any one of the wordsigns in which a letter represents a word 

braille cell

the physical area which is occupied by a braille character 

braille character

any one of the 64 distinct patterns of six dots, including

the space, which can be expressed in braille 

braille sign

one or more consecutive braille characters comprising a unit, consisting of a root on its own or a root preceded by one or more prefixes (also referred to as braille symbol) 

braille space

a blank cell, or the blank margin at the beginning and end of a braille line 

braille symbol

used interchangeably with braille sign

contracted

transcribed using contractions (also referred to as grade 2

braille) 

contraction

a braille sign which represents a word or a group of letters 

final-letter groupsign

a two-cell braille sign formed by dots 46 or dots 56 followed by the final letter of the group 


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