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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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A simple hand stencil found on a cave wall in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art on Earth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.

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

So I phoned this in, and the woman who was going to cut the stencil asked me, “What did his wife say?”

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut