Usually means: Tool for precise touchscreen interaction.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word stylus:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stylus: Merriam-Webster
  3. stylus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stylus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stylus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stylus: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stylus, stylus: Wordnik
  8. stylus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stylus: Wiktionary
  10. stylus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stylus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stylus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stylus: Dictionary.com
  14. stylus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Stylus (band), Stylus (computing), Stylus (stylesheet language), Stylus, The Stylus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stylus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stylus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stylus: Rhymezone
  19. stylus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stylus: FreeDictionary.org
  21. stylus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stylus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: Legal dictionary
  2. stylus: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: Netlingo
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. stylus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. stylus: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stylus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stylus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See styli as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (writing) An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
noun:  A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.
noun:  (computing) A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
noun:  A hard-pointed pen-shaped instrument for marking on stencils used in a mimeograph machine.
noun:  A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
noun:  A pointed device formerly used to produce a groove in a record when recording sound.
noun:  A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
noun:  (botany) Synonym of style.

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