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‖ stylus|ˈstaɪləs|
Also stilus. Pl. styluses, styli.
[a. L. stylus, incorrect form of stilus: see style n.]
1. = style n. 1.
1807J. Landseer Lect. Engraving iii. 119 Lines drawn with a stylus or steel point (commonly called an etching needle) on copper. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing etc. ii. 101 The early Babylonians had a practice of tracing out various figures, with a stylus or point. 1834Lytton Pompeii iii. i, A stilus and tablets of no ordinary size. 1881A. Watt Mech. Industr. 126 The next operation [in etching] is to employ the stylus, or point. 1882Chamb. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 81 The pencil outlines are then cut sharply on the friable surface with a stylus. 1884J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. (1885) 75 This delicate microscopic writing, looking as if it were done with a stylus.
2. a. A tracing-point used to produce the written record in a chart recorder, telegraph receiver, or the like.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2518/2 (Telephone), The other arm terminates in a stylus which normally rests upon an ink-ribbon over the bed of the receiving-table. 1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 295 The membrane carries a stylus, which also participates in the motion, and records it upon the blackened paper. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XI. 382/1 By the use of a coated chart or an inked ribbon between the stylus and the chart, an intermittent record is made. 1971Magrab & Blomquist Measurement Time-Varying Phenomena v. 182 A voltage will be applied to the coils of the writing system which will cause the slider and writing stylus to move in proportion to the voltage, thus obtaining a recording.
b. = needle n. 3 e.
1879Year-Bk. of Facts 88/2 In that patent he [sc. Edison] describes a means of recording ordinary telegraph signals by a chisel-shaped stylus indenting a sheet of paper. 1892W. Gillett Phonograph 12 Instead of one stylus serving for the two purposes, there are now two; one, the recorder, having a very keen edge,..and the other, the reproducer, having a tiny knob highly polished. Ibid. 13 note, In some of Mr. Edison's recent instruments..two styluses are used. 1904S. R. Bottone Talking Machines & Records 48 The recording stylus is now seldom made of steel, except only in the very commonest forms of recorders; but is usually made of..sapphire. 1943Gramophone July 29/3 The stylus is a small sapphire carried on the toe of an L-shaped holder. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 370 (Advt.), Turnover sapphire styli. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 87 The hot-stylus method..helps to smooth the wall as the cutter moves on. 1975Times 17 Sept. 16/3 Nowadays, you have a ‘cartridge’ with a ‘stylus’ in it, and the [gramophone] arm is called a ‘pick-up’.
fig.1936Dylan Thomas Coll. Poems (1952) 37 The grooved land rotating, that the stylus of lightning Dazzle this face of voices on the moon-turned table.
3. The gnomon of a sun-dial; = style n. 7.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. i. 18 A species of sun-dial, having a stilus or gnomon erected perpendicularly upon an horizontal plane.
4. A pointer or finger; = style n. 6.
1884Manch. Exam. 16 Sept. 6/2 A curious Kalender, with an astronomical volvelle of which the stylus had been preserved.
5. Bot. = style n. 8.
Used as mod.L. in Ray Meth. Plant. Emend. (1703) 202.
1728J. Douglass in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 570 They..fall to picking out the Filamenta Styli, or Chives, and together with them, a pretty long Portion of the Stylus itself, or String to which they are joined. 1771Encycl. Brit. III. 457/1 Both have one stylus, and one long seed. 1856Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms, Stylus. The style. Also the Ostiolum of certain Fungi.
6. Zool. A style or stylet.
1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 53 Trichodina.—Body oval, with vibratile cilia, without cirri or styli. 1887Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/2 (Sponges) By the suppression of one of the rays of an oxea, an acuate spicule or stylus results. 1887S. O. Ridley in Challenger Rep. XX. 84 Spicules.—Megasclera; long but very slender styli. |