keystone

See also: Keystone

English

Etymology

key +‎ stone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.stəʊn/

Noun

keystone (plural keystones)

1. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
2. Something on which other things depend for support.
   • 1999, Eliezer Geisler, Methodology, Theory, and Knowledge in the Managerial and Organizational ...

     Tension between empirical and theoretical knowledge is keystone to sociological and to organizational theories, as early as in Marx's and Weber's frameworks.

3. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
4. (retail) A retail price that is double the cost price; a markup of 100%.

Derived terms

• keystone corner
• keystone correction
• keystone picture
• keystone pricing
• keystone species

 

Translations

the top stone of an arch

• Arabic: حجر العقد
• Armenian: պորտաքար (hy) (portakʻar)

  Old Armenian: պորտ (port)

• Azerbaijani: açardaşı
• Basque: giltzarri
• Bulgarian: ключ (bg) m (ključ)
• Catalan: clau de volta f
• Czech: svorník
• Danish: slutsten c, kilesten c
• Dutch: sluitsteen (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉefŝtono, ŝlosoŝtono
• Estonian: päiskivi
• Finnish: lakikivi
• French: clef de voûte (fr) f, clé de voute (fr), clef d’arc (fr) f, clé d’arc (fr) f, claveau (fr) m
• Galician: clave f
• Georgian: ქვაკუთხედი (kvaḳutxedi)
• German: Schlussstein (de) m, Scheitelstein m
• Greek: σφηνόλιθος (el) m (sfinólithos)
• Hebrew: אבן הראשה (he)
• Hungarian: zárókő
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• Ido: klozostono (io)
• Italian: chiave di volta f
• Japanese: キーストーン
• Kannada: ನೆತ್ತಿಗಲ್ಲು (kn) (nettigallu)
• Korean: 쐐기돌 (sswaegidol)
• Manx: ard-chlagh f, ogher f
• Norwegian: kronestein
• Occitan: clau de vòlta f
• Persian: سنگ تاج
• Polish: zwornik (pl) m, klucz (pl) m, filar (pl) m, podstawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pedra angular f
• Romanian: cheia de boltă f
• Russian: замко́вый ка́мень (ru) m (zamkóvyj kámenʹ), замо́к (ru) m (zamók)
• Slovak: svorník
• Spanish: clave (es) f
• Swedish: slutsten, nyckelstenen
• Tamil: கீஸ்டோன் (kīsṭōṉ)
• Ukrainian: замковий камінь m (zamkovyj kaminʹ), замок m (zamok), ключ (uk) m (ključ)

something on which other things depend for support

• Bulgarian: крайъгълен камък m (krajǎgǎlen kamǎk)
• Danish: grundprincip n, kardinalpunkt n, hovedpunkt n
• French: clef de voûte (fr) f
• Occitan: clau de vòlta f
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• Russian: замко́вый ка́мень (ru) m (zamkóvyj kámenʹ)
• Vietnamese: rường cột (vi)

a native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania

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Verb

1. (transitive) To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes a square to look like a trapezoid.
2. (transitive, retail) To double the cost price in order to determine the retail price; to apply a markup of 100%.

Anagrams

• keynotes, keytones