Stylus
['staɪləs]
Definition
(noun.) a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; 'he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus'.
(noun.) a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player.
Typist: Marcus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
(n.) 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 metal or diamond.
(n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
(n.) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
Typed by Edmund
Examples
- Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- While the record is being traced the waxed disc is kept flooded with alcohol from a glass jar, seen in the cut, to soften the film and prevent the clogging of the stylus. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The mouthpiece A had adjacent to the cylinder a flexible diaphragm carrying a little point or stylus which bore against the tin foil on the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Suspended above, but in contact with the surface of the blank, is a recording needle or stylus, attached to a diaphragm which, in turn, is connected to an amplifying horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This paper, while still in a damp condition, was passed between the drum and stylus in continuous, progressive motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The stylus penetrates this film, meeting from it the slightest possible resistance, and traces thereon the message. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The weight presses the stylus to its work, but because of its mass it cannot respond to the extremely rapid vibrations of the stylus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the waxed disc and pan are revolved, the stylus and diaphragm are gradually moved by gears toward the center of the disc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This mouthpiece had a diaphragm and stylus similar to the other one, only more delicately constructed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He took the rude print from the wall, and showed her on the back of it the marks of the stylus, or burnisher, by which it had been rubbed upon the wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- C, and it consists of a chamber to catch the sound waves and an elastic diaphragm with stylus working on a revolving cylinder bearing a sheet of paper coated with lampblack. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The record plate is then subjected to a particularly constituted acid bath, which, entering the groove or grooves formed by the stylus, cuts or etches the same into the plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Both the recording stylus and reproducing ball are made of sapphire, chosen on account of its hardness, to resist the great frictional wear to which they are subjected. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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