capstone

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall

   Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.

2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   To complete as a crowning achievement

   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.
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   1. 4

      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.

The neighborhood

• synonymcapestane
• synonymcopestone
• neighborcaprock
• neighborkeystone