STYLUS

noun (plural styli; also ~es) see: style Date: 1773 an instrument for writing, marking, or incising: as, an instrument used by the ancients in writing on clay or waxed tablets, a hard-pointed pen-shaped instrument for marking on stencils used in a reproducing machine, c. needle 3c, a cutting tool used to produce an original record groove during disc recording, a pen-shaped pointing device used for entering data (as positional information from a graphics tablet) into a computer