ALL meanings of stylus
sty·lus
S s - noun stylus needle on record player 1
- noun stylus digital pen for a touch screen 1
- noun plural stylus 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. 1
- noun plural stylus any of various pointed, pen-shaped instruments used in drawing, artwork, etc. 1
- noun plural stylus Computers. a pen-shaped device used on a display screen to input commands or handwritten text or drawings. Compare joystick (def 2), mouse (def 4). 1
- noun plural stylus Audio. Also called cutting stylus. a needle used for cutting grooves in making a disk recording to be played on a phonograph. a needle for reproducing the sounds of a phonograph record. 1
- noun plural stylus any of various pointed wedges used to punch holes in paper or other material, as in writing Braille. 1
- noun plural stylus any of various kinds of pens for tracing a line automatically, as on a recording seismograph or electrocardiograph. 1
- countable noun stylus The stylus on a record player is the small needle that picks up the sound signals on the records. 0
- countable noun stylus A stylus is a device like a pen with which you can input written text or drawing directly into a computer. 0
- noun stylus a pointed instrument for engraving, drawing, or writing 0
- noun stylus a tool used in ancient times for writing on wax tablets, which was pointed at one end and blunt at the other for erasing mistakes 0
- noun stylus a device attached to the cartridge in the pick-up arm of a record player that rests in the groove in the record, transmitting the vibrations to the sensing device in the cartridge. It consists of or is tipped with a hard material, such as diamond or sapphire 0
- noun stylus a style or other needlelike marking device 0
- noun stylus any of various pointed tools, as one used for marking mimeograph stencils or one used in Braille embossing 0
- noun stylus a sharp, pointed device for cutting the grooves of a phonograph record 0
- noun stylus the short, pointed piece, tipped usually with a sapphire or diamond, that moves in such grooves and transmits vibrations to the cartridge in the pickup of a phonograph 0