Pronunciations
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/ˈkæpˌstoʊn/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
Usage- Figurative
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“You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.
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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.
Verb
To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
Usage- US usage
- Informal
- Transitive
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“Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.
Noun
a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
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- Broader terms
a stone that forms the top of wall or building
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