capstone
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
capstone (plural capstones)
- Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
- (figuratively) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
- 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Far from the Maddening Girls, chapter 5
- “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.
- 1969, NASA, The Post-Apollo Space Program: Directions for the Future
- 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.
- 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Far from the Maddening Girls, chapter 5
Translations[edit]
a crowning achievement
