Cyclostyle

[Cyclo + style.]
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.

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A circular colonnade which is open at the center.

For the copying machine, see Cyclostyle (copier).

A cyclostyle (from the Greek words for "circle" and "column") is a term used in architecture. A structure composed of a circular range of columns without a core is cyclostylar; with a core the range would be peristyle. This is the species of edifice called "monopteral" by Vitruvius.^[1]

References

1. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 689.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Cyclostyle". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 689. 

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