Capstone

Quick meaning: Capstone is a noun meaning Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
2. (transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
3. (transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.

Example Sentences

“Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• capstones
• capstoning
• capstoned

Synonyms for capstone

Depending on context, synonyms include capestane, stretcher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stretcher, framework, peak, element, consolidated, summary.

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