stencil

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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

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

On the wafer’s surface, a chemical substrate called a photoresist reacts to the light, and etches the stencil pattern into the silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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

The shadows on the road were as still as if they had been put there with a stencil, with slanting pencils of sunlight.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner