n.device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern

v.mark or print with a stencil

Sketching stencils
Sketching stencils
Stencils-based tutorials: design and evaluation
Electroformed stencils for solar cell front side metallization
Microfabricated elastomeric stencils for micropatterning cell cultures
Stencils and Problem Partitionings: Their Influence on the Performance of Multiple Processor Systems
Triangle based adaptive stencils for the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws
Multi-stencils fast marching methods: a highly accurate solution to the eikonal equation on cartesian domains
Generation of static and dynamic patterned co-cultures using microfabricated parylene-C stencils.
A Maximum Principle Satisfying Modification of Triangle Based Adaptive Stencils for the Solution of Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation L...