Look up pencil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A pencil is a handheld instrument used to write and draw, usually on paper.
Pencil may also refer to:
- Pencil (film), a 2016 Tamil film
- Pencil (optics), a beam of radiant energy in the form of a narrow cone or cylinder
- Pencil (geometry), a family of geometric objects
- Pencil2D, an open-source drawing and animation app
- Apple Pencil, a stylus device released by Apple Inc.
- Matrix pencil, a pair of matrices used in a generalized eigenvalue problem