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capstoning

capstoning is the present participle and gerund of capstone.

Meaning of capstone

Verb

capstone (third-person singular simple present capstones, present participle capstoning, simple past and past participle capstoned)

  1. (transitive) 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.2012, Keith Brooke, Strange Divisions and Alien Territories, page 23
  2. (US, informal, transitive) 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.1981, Army Reserve Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 24

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Questions about capstoning

What is capstoning the present participle and gerund of?
Capstoning is the present participle and gerund of capstone.

Words near capstoning in the dictionary

  1. capstone
  2. capstone project
  3. capstone projects
  4. capstoned
  5. capstones
  6. capstoning
  7. capstorm
  8. capstorms
  9. capstring
  10. capstrings
  11. Capsuimoon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capstoning (page history and authors); capstone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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