Look up: stylus

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   Stylus
   a stick with blunt rounded ends used to deboss paper. (Also known as a burnisher or a dry embossing tool)
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   Stylus
   A metal pen for scratching words into wax on wooden tablets.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/glos
   
   
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   stylus
   [n] - a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player 2. [n] - a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
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   Stylus
   The needle part of the phonograph cartridge that is in contact with the grooves of the disc.
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   Stylus
   A wood/plastic/metal tool (in the shape of a stick) with blunt, rounded ends used to deboss paper (also known as a burnisher or a dry embossing tool).
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   stylus
   A pointed tool, such as the metal pen used to scratch words on to a wax tablet.
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   stylus
   the portion of a phonograph pickup that follows the modulation of a record groove and transmits the resulting mechanical motions to the transducer element of the pickup for conversion to corresponding AF signals Category: Electrical engineering and energy
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Stylus
   A tool that is used on a graphic input tablet as a drawing instrument, or as a mouse.
   Found on http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%
   
   
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   Stylus
   Sty'lus noun [ Latin stylus , or better stilus .] An instrument for writing. See Style , noun , 1.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/218
   
   
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    Stylus
    Sty'lus noun In a photograph, a pointed piece which is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record; also, a pointed piece which follows the indented record, vibrates the diaphragm, and reproduces the sound.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/218
    
    
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    stylus
    An instrument for writing. See Style. 2. ... That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal i ...
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    stylus
    style noun a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; `he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus`
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    Stylus
    A `stylus` (plural: `styli` or `styluses`) is a writing utensil. The word is also used for a computer accessory (PDAs). It usually refers to a narrow elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styluses are heavily curved to be held more easily. Styli were first used by the ancient Mesopotamians in order to write in cuneiform, usually made out of reeds that grew on the sides of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and in marshes and dow...
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    stylus
    (sti´lәs) stylet. a pencil or stick, as of caustic.
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    Stylus
    • (n.) In a photograph, a pointed piece which is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record; also, a pointed piece which follows the indented record, vibrates the diaphragm, and reproduces the sound. • (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in th...
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    stylus
    (from the article `telephone and telephone system`) ...1960s. At the transmitter, the image to be scanned was written with varnish or some other nonconducting material on tinfoil, wrapped around the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/176
    
    
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    stylus
    (from the article `phonograph`) instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc. A phonograph disc, or ... ...makes use of a spiral 90° V-shaped groove impressed into a plastic disc. As the record revolves at 33 13 rotations per minute, a tiny `needle,
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    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/176
    
    
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    stylus
    pointed instrument for writing and marking. The stylus was used in ancient times as a tool for writing on parchment or papyrus. The early Greeks ... [1 related articles]
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    stylus
    stylus (s), styli (pl) 1. A pointed tool for writing, drawing, or engraving. 2. A pointed instrument used for engraving; especially, one used in ancient times for writing on clay or wax tablets. 3. The tracing pen on an electronic device such as a seismograph or polygraph that converts an electrical signal into a written record. 4. Etymol...
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    Stylus
    A tool that is used on a graphic input tablet as a drawing instrument, or as a mouse
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    stylus
    stylus: see pen.
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