capstone
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capstone
- /ˈkæpˌstoʊn/ US
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From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap + stone.
noun capstones
- Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
- A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch. “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.
verb capstones · capstoning · capstoned
- To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off. Capstoning a decade's worth of linked short stories, The Quiet War (2008) was a vivid and tense novel about a solar system sliding into conflict.
- To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program. “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.
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noun any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall
| Español | coronamiento, coronación |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Mauerkronenstein |
| Ελληνικά | επιστέγασμα epistégasma |
noun a crowning achievement
| Español | logro coronador, culminación, curso culminante, curso apoteósico, curso apoteótico |
|---|---|
| Français | couronnement |
| Deutsch | Höhepunkt, Krönung |
| Italiano | coronamento |
| Ελληνικά | επιστέγασμα epistégasma |
| Русский | венец venec |
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