English to Afrikaans Meaning of stylus - stylus

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Definitions of stylus in English

Noun(1) a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player(2) a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

Examples of stylus in English

(1) It is said to have developed originally as a means of writing with a stylus on palm leaves, which would split if incised with a straight line.(2) During this period all the energy available to drive the stylus which etched out the recorded wave-forms was ├ö├ç├┐acoustic energy├ö├ç├û: that is, it came from the sound waves themselves.(3) He used the palm pilot as his tablet, but his stylus was a plastic space-age contemporary version of the traditional reed pen.(4) Another stylus was used to play back the recording turning the indentations on the cylinder into sound.(5) The symbols were pressed into soft clay tablets with the slanted edge of a stylus and so had a wedge-shaped appearance (and hence the name cuneiform).(6) The server software also records hand movements through wind changes directly above the tablet when the stylus is not touching it.(7) For writing, they used a stylus and a wax tablet.(8) The next significant development began around 3,100 B.C. when a pointed stylus was used to incise pictures of tokens in clay tablets instead of impressing the tokens themselves.(9) It is a digital canvas which can be used with a mouse but really comes into its own when used with a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus .(10) Executed in the same flat, almost naÔö£┬╗ve style, the stylus emerges from the right hand side almost threateningly, bearing down on the record.(11) He seized his stylus and scratched twenty coppers from the total on his tablet.(12) A metal stylus was used for scratching characters onto a wax tablet.(13) The small number of numerical symbols was, to a large extent, controlled by the method of writing numbers using a blunt stylus with a circular section to impress marks on wet clay.(14) All his recordings were made using the ├ö├ç├┐acoustic method├ö├ç├û - singing in front of a large horn, connected to a recording diaphragm and cutting stylus , which cut a groove in a rotating wax disc.(15) A stylus is a pen that comes with a drawing pad, which is connected to the computer.(16) Using a reed stylus , they made wedge-shaped impressions on wet clay tablets which were then baked in the sun.

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1. style ::

styl

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stylus, styluses

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