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English
Etymology
From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap + stone.
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Noun
capstone (plural capstones)
- Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
- (figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
1969, The Post-Apollo Space Program: Directions for the Future, NASA:Success of the Apollo program has been the capstone to a series of significant accomplishments for the United States in space in a broad spectrum of manned and unmanned exploration missions and in the application of space techniques for the benefit of man.
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any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall
Verb
capstone (third-person singular simple present capstones, present participle capstoning, simple past and past participle capstoned)
- (transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
2012, Keith Brooke, Strange Divisions and Alien Territories, page 23: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.
- (transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
1981, Army Reserve Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 24:“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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