Stone

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Stone may refer to:

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Construction and building

  • Masonry, the building of structures from stone
  • Coade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decoration
  • Standing stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground

Geology

  • Rock (geology), a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, or an individual piece of rock
  • Marble, a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone

People

Entertainment

Games

  • Stones (video game), a game released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack
  • Stones are objects that are played in Go

Books and comics

Film and television

Music

Places

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United States

Units of measure

  • Stone (mass), a unit of mass which since the latter half of the twentieth century has been equal to fourteen pounds
  • Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds

Other

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