Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A peristyle of circular form.
  • noun An apparatus for making duplicate copies of letters, circulars, etc., written on sensitized paper with a pen of peculiar make, or with a typewriter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture A circular group of columns without a core.
  • noun A device used to make copies of a drawing or writing, via small punctures made in the outline
  • verb To use such a wheel and puncture device to make copies.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
  • noun a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil

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  • "The woman is looking at a plan held in her left hand. It's just a sheet of paper, whose still visible creases attest to its having been folded in four, fixed by a paperclip to a thick cyclostyled volume — the terms of co-ownership relating to the flat this woman is about to visit."

    -- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 4

    June 1, 2008

  • "... and then there were the five daily maps to prepare, copy on the cyclostyle (an early duplicating process using stencil and ink), and distribute to the main local railroads, newspapers, and hotels."

    —David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 109

    November 11, 2008

  • JM has a fondness for cyclostyle generated newsletters - you never get too many of them.

    November 16, 2009