Rosetta Stone
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Rosetta_Stone.jpg/220px-Rosetta_Stone.jpg)
Proper noun
[edit]- A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.
- (by extension) Any source of information crucial to interpreting.
- My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened up understanding of the physics lectures.
Translations
[edit]large inscribed stone
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