capstone
noun
- top stone of an arch
- educational course or project that culminates a degree program
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkæpˌstoʊn/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap + stone.
- Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
- A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
““You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.”
“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
Etymology: From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap + stone.
- To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
“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.
““Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.”