An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
jasper
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jasper.
Editorial note
Ask Dane Jasper about his fiber rollout in the Bay Area and you'll see what I mean (he lurks here).
Quick take
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of jasper gathered in one view.
Jasperware pottery.
One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for jasper.
noun
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
noun
Jasperware pottery.
noun
One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
noun
A male given name from Old Persian.
Example sentences
Ask Dane Jasper about his fiber rollout in the Bay Area and you'll see what I mean (he lurks here).
A Jasper Morrison chair might be incredibly beautiful and expressive, but it's designed to be sat in.
Also, structuring it this way makes it easy to substitute jasper/jasmin or another bytecode (dis)assembler if desired.
This whole social hierarchy based on colors reminds me of Jasper Fforde's Shades of Gray.
I've implemented a calendar like this in a jasper report (on Oracle), with hyperlinks to actions on that date.
With things like the Jasper Project [0], you can run your own personal assistant that decodes voice on your machine and doesn't use the cloud.
In that previous thread no one mentioned my favorite, Jasper Johns.
Dane Jasper of sonic.net has laid it all out much better than I could[6].
Granted, Jasper doesn't fit in your pocket (yet).
Reminds me of my time in grad school:-) Looks like jasper's recommended way is to improve or find a way to bypass the memory managment (slab allocation) subsystem.
Neil Gaiman; Douglas Adams; Jasper Fforde.
The current 'jasper' model 360's have a RRoD rate of less than 4% which is actually significantly better than the industry standard of 5-8% for hardware failures in the first year.
Quote examples
Isn't "Jasper" the pretty well-established name for a Java report library?
"The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel" by Jasper Fforde, it starts slow, so give it 100 pages but I was hooked then and read all other books from him (and all are excellent).
Proper noun examples
Jasper works pretty well and gives you a designer, but you could also roll your own like Aheinemann says.
To give you some perspective, Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic.net said they spend about 3% of their costs on bandwidth.
Jasper is a thin layer built on top of those systems (sphinx in this case).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use jasper in a sentence?
Ask Dane Jasper about his fiber rollout in the Bay Area and you'll see what I mean (he lurks here).
What does jasper mean?
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
What part of speech is jasper?
jasper is commonly used as noun.