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sty·lus

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s] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -li

Audio Help [-lahy] Pronunciation Key, -lus·es.

1.	an instrument of metal, bone, or the like, used by the ancients for writing on waxed tablets, having one end pointed for incising the letters and the other end blunt for rubbing out writing and smoothing the tablet.

2.	any of various pointed, pen-shaped instruments used in drawing, artwork, etc.

3.	Computers. a pen-shaped device used on a display screen to input commands or handwritten text or drawings.

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a.	Also called cutting stylus. a needle used for cutting grooves in making a disk recording to be played on a phonograph.

b.	a needle for reproducing the sounds of a phonograph record.

5.	any of various pointed wedges used to punch holes in paper or other material, as in writing Braille.

6.	any of various kinds of pens for tracing a line automatically, as on a recording seismograph or electrocardiograph.

Also, style (for defs. 1, 2).

[Origin: 1720–30; < L: sp. var. of stilus stake, pointed writing instrument; sp. with -y- from fancied derivation < Gk stŷlos column

]

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sty·lus Audio Help (stī'ləs) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. sty·lus·es or sty·li (-lī)

A sharp, pointed instrument used for writing, marking, or engraving.
Computer Science A pointed instrument used as an input device on a pressure-sensitive screen.
A phonograph needle.
A sharp, pointed tool used for cutting record grooves.

[Latin, alteration (influenced by Greek stūlos, pillar) of stilus.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
stylus

1728, "stem-like part of a flower pistil," alteration of L. stilus "stake, stylus;" spelling influenced by Gk. stylos "pillar" (see stet). Meaning "instrument for writing" is from 1807.

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stylus
noun
1.	a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player
2.	a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
stylus [ˈstailəs] noun

a needle of a record player

Arabic:	إبْرَة تَسْجيل الصَّوْت
Chinese (Simplified):	唱针
Chinese (Traditional):	寶石唱針；鐵筆
Czech:	jehla
Danish:	grammofonnål
Dutch:	naald
Estonian:	grammofoninõel
Finnish:	neula
French:	aiguille
German:	die Nadel
Greek:	βελόνα γραμμοφώνου
Hungarian:	lejátszótű
Icelandic:	nál
Indonesian:	jarum gramopon
Italian:	puntina

Japanese:	針
Korean:	축음기의 바늘
Latvian:	(patafona) adata
Lithuanian:	patefono adata
Norwegian:	grammofonstift
Polish:	igła
Portuguese (Brazil):	agulha
Portuguese (Portugal):	agulha
Romanian:	ac de pick-up
Russian:	граммофонная иголка
Slovak:	ihla
Slovenian:	gramofonska igla
Spanish:	aguja
Swedish:	stift
Turkish:	iğne

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

sty·lus (stls)
n. pl. sty·lus·es or sty·li (-l)

A pencil-shaped structure.
A pencil-shaped medicinal preparation for external application; as a medicated bougie.
See stylet.

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: sty·lus
Variant: also sti·lus /'stI-l&s/
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural sty·li /'stI(&)l-"I/ also sty·lus·es /'stI-l&-s&z/ or sti·li or sti·lus·es
: an instrument for writing, marking, or incising: as a : a hard-pointed instrument for punching the dots in writing braille with a braille slate b : a device that traces a recording (as of an electrocardiograph) on paper

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Stylus

Sty"lus\, 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.

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Stylus

Sty"lus\, n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.] An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

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