Associations to the word «Keystone»

Wiktionary

KEYSTONE, noun. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
KEYSTONE, noun. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A CDP in Colorado.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A city/town in Iowa.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A ghost town in North Dakota.
KEYSTONE, proper noun. A town in South Dakota.
KEYSTONE CORNER, noun. (baseball) Second base, because it is often the key to scoring and defense.
KEYSTONE PRICING, noun. (business) (marketing) A pricing method, where the price is doubled at each level of distribution.
KEYSTONE SPECIES, noun. (ecology) A species that exerts a large, stabilizing influence throughout an ecological community, despite its relatively small numerical abundance.
KEYSTONE STATE, proper noun. (informal) Pennsylvania

Dictionary definition

KEYSTONE, noun. A central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm".
KEYSTONE, noun. The central building block at the top of an arch or vault.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery