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Webster 1913 Edition
Keystone
Key′stoneˊ
,Noun.
(Arch.)
The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of
Arch
. Webster 1828 Edition
Keystone
KE'YSTONE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Keystone
Keystone
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English
Proper noun
Keystone
- A census-designated place in Colorado.
- A city/town in Iowa.
- A ghost town in North Dakota.
- A town in South Dakota.
keystone
keystone
See also: Keystone
English
Noun
keystone (plural keystones)
- (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
- 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.
- 1999, Eliezer Geisler, Methodology, Theory, and Knowledge in the Managerial and Organizational ...
- A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
Translations
the top stone of an arch
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something on which other things depend for support
a native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania
Derived terms
Terms derived from keystone
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Verb
keystone (third-person singular simple present keystones, present participle keystoning, simple past and past participle keystoned)
- (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.