Crossword clues for stylus
stylus
- Replaceable turntable part
- PDA pointer
- Computer tablet pen
- Turntable needle
- Touchscreen-touching tool
- Touchscreen tool
- Touch screen accessory
- Tool for writing on a smartphone or tablet
- Tablet writer
- Tablet computer implement
- Stencil needle
- Seismograph pen
- Record player needle
- Phablet gizmo
- PDA accessory
- Old-fashioned writing tool
- Old writing implement
- Old gramophone needle
- Needle used for playing gramophone records
- Movie magazine
- Gramophone 'needle'
- Galaxy Note accessory
- Fat-fingered touchscreen user's aid
- Engraving tool — record player needle
- Phonograph needle
- Victrola part
- Record cutter
- Etching tool
- Touch screen toucher
- Apple Pencil, for one
- A sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player
- A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
- Record needle
- Writing implement
- Vinyl records needle
- Gramophone needle
- Fashion uniform for Earl with small needle
- LP tracking point
- Record pick-up
- Point of contact for those on deck?
- Record player
- Phonograph part
- Engraving tool
- Turntable need
- Pointed instrument
- Seismograph part
- Treo accessory
- Tablet accessory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stylus \Sty"lus\, n. [L. stylus, or better stilus.]
An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
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 into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of a hard metal or of diamond.
The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record; it is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record.
(Computers) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, "stem-like part of a flower pistil," alteration of Latin stilus "stake, stylus;" spelling influenced by Greek stylos "pillar" (see stet). Meaning "instrument for writing" is from 1807.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sharp stick used in ancient times for writing in clay tablets or other surfaces; a sharp tool for engraving. 2 A phonograph needle. 3 A small plastic stick used as a pen for writing on the touch sensitive screen of an electronic gadget. 4 A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A stylus, plural styli or styluses, is a writing utensil, or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example in pottery. It can also be a computer accessory that is used to assist in navigating or providing more precision when using touchscreens. It usually refers to a narrow elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styluses are heavily curved to be held more easily. Another widely used writing tool is the stylus used by blind users in conjunction with the slate for punching out the dots in Braille. Styluses were first used by the ancient Mesopotamians in order to write in cuneiform. Egyptians (Middle Kingdom) and the Minoans of Crete (Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic) made styluses in various materials: reeds that grew on the sides of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and in marshes and down to Egypt where the Egyptians used styluses from sliced reeds with sharp points; bone and metal styluses were also used. Cuneiform was entirely based on the " wedge-shaped" mark that the end of a cut reed made when pushed into a clay tablet; from Latin cuneus = wedge. The linear writings of Crete in the first half of the second millennium BC which were made on clay tablets that were left to dry in the sun until they became "leather" hard before being incised by the stylus. The linear nature of the writing was also dictated by the use of the stylus.
In Western Europe styluses were widely used until the late Middle Ages. For learning purposes the stylus was gradually replaced by a writing slate. From the mid-14th century improved water-powered paper mills produced large and cheap quantities of paper and the wax tablet and stylus disappeared completely from daily life.
Stylus is a dynamic stylesheet language that is compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Its design is influenced by Sass and LESS. It's regarded as the third most used CSS preprocessor syntax. It was created by TJ Holowaychuk, a former programmer for Node.js and the creator of the Luna language. It is written in JADE and Node.js.
Stylus were an Australian funk, soul group which formed in 1975. They were the first Australian act to be released by Motown Records in the USA. Stylus toured supporting George Benson, Average White Band, Ike & Tina Turner, and Little River Band. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, Stylus "scored a number of hit singles and became very popular on the Australian pub and concert circuit". The group disbanded in 1979 and subsequently had various reunions. In 1998-99 Japan's Toshiba-EMI re-issued three Stylus albums on CDs (For the Love of Music, Best Kept Secret and Part of It All). Their reunions have resulted in a live album, Still Alive (2003); and a new studio album, Across Time (2010).
In computing, a stylus (or stylus pen) is a small pen-shaped instrument that is used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet. With touchscreen devices, a user places a stylus on the surface of the screen to draw or make selections by tapping the stylus on the screen. In this manner, the stylus can be used instead of a mouse or trackpad as a pointing device, a technique commonly called pen computing.
Pen-like input devices which are larger than a stylus, and offer increased functionality such as programmable buttons, pressure sensitivity and electronic erasers, are often known as digital pens.
The stylus is the primary input device for personal digital assistants. It is used on the Nintendo DS and 3DS handheld game consoles, and the Wii U's Wii U GamePad. Some smartphones, such as Windows Mobile phones, require a stylus for accurate input. However, devices featuring multi-touch finger-input are becoming more popular than stylus-driven devices in the smartphone market; capacitive stylus, different from standard stylus, can be used for these finger-touch devices ( iPhone, etc.). Also the stylus (S-Pen) is used in the famous Galaxy Note series manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
Graphics tablets use a stylus containing circuitry (powered by battery or operating passively by change of inductance), to allow multi-function buttons on the barrel of the pen or stylus to transmit user actions to the tablet. Most tablets detect varying degrees of pressure sensitivity, e.g. for use in a drawing program to vary line thickness or color density.
The first use of a stylus in a computing device was the Styalator, demonstrated by Tom Dimond in 1957.
A stylus is a writing utensil, or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping.
Stylus may also refer to:
- Stylus (computing), small pen-shaped instrument used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet
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Stylus (band), Australian soul-pop group
- An alias of Point4
- Stylus Magazine, online music and film magazine launched in 2002
- Stylus (stylesheet language), computer programming language
- Stylus Sofas, Canadian furniture company
- Avama Stylus, a Slovakian ultralight aircraft
- Isuzu Stylus, compact car built by Isuzu
- The Stylus, would-be periodical owned and edited by Edgar Allan Poe
- The very small diamond tip of a magnetic cartridge used to "read" the gramophone record
Usage examples of "stylus".
Poet will yield up his stylus only when the Geometer can explain how Life can at once be a point and a line.
A woman held her robe out as a basket, full of quills and inkpots, stands and styluses and tablets all jumbled together, ink leaking through the fine gold fabric of her rich vestment.
Almost the only books left to me to read, and not to unlearn very much, are my first books--the graven classics of Greece and Rome, cut with a stylus so deeply into the tablet they cannot be erased.
There was something earnest in the way she put stylus to paper, like a littlie learning how to read.
Brown holds one of the little cylinders close to his visor, and uses a stylus to poke at microswitches inside it.
Wyman took a Palm Pilot out of the desk drawer, turned it on, screwed the monocle into his right eye, tapped the screen with the stylus, and peered.
He would sit in the center of his pentacle, stylus on his knee, listening with rapt attention, ticking me off when I introduced a more than usually obvious fib, and frequently interrupting to clarify some ambiguity.
Using the stylus from her data slate as a pointer, she indicated the pulsar centered on the screen.
He pointed with his stylus at the couch where the younger reservist lay asleep.
The deer-antler stylus Theirid used to scratch tallies had been borrowed and resharpened into an awl.
He moistened the drum with glycerine and water and, substituting a stylus of hay for the stapes bone, he obtained a wonderful series of curves which showed the vibrations of the human voice as recorded by the ear.
Along the shore in a never-broken line, the hand, the wooden stylus of this man bent down in fever and raining perspiration, scribbled, ribboned, looped around over and up, across, in, out, stitched, whispered, stayed, then hurried on as if this travelling bacchanal must flourish to its end before the sun was put out by the sea.
So many instructions had been added to his decryption program now that its action was noticeably slower, and he tapped his stylus on the console restlessly as he waited it out.
Sosia had left me a wooden tablet, unlaced from one of those four-page pocketbooks and then inscribed deeply with a stylus in a round hand that had never done serious writing: Didius Falco, I know a place where they may keep the silver pigs.
When the stylus fired a coherent beam of mesons at the border, the razor wire of disrupted graphs sliced fragments of their own surreal dimensions from the knot of virtual quarks and gluons making up each meson, and it was possible to exploit coherence effects to make some of these fragments act in unison to modify the border itself.