Capstone

/ˈkæpˌstoʊn/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
2. (figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
3. (transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
4. (transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.

Example Sentences

“You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.

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.

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.

“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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• capstones
• capstoning
• capstoned

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