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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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Scientists identified a partial hand stencil surrounded by much younger paintings.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

In the middle, light bounces off something like a stencil patterned with the chip’s billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The mousy brown librarian has sent copies of the Tavernier and the Streeter and even—most remarkably— stencil duplicates of de Boodt’s 1604 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, written entirely in Latin.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr