Touchstone
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"Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry."--Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888) by Matthew Arnold |
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- A stone used to test the quality of gold alloys.
- A standard of comparison or evaluation.
Touchstone may refer to:
- Touchstone (assaying tool), a stone used to identify precious metals
- Touchstone (metaphor), a means of assaying relative merits of a concept
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Entertainment
- Touchstone (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea
- Touchstone (band), rock group from the U.K.
- Touchstone (US-Irish band), Irish-music band from the U.S.
- The Touchstone (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth
- The Touchstone, a novella by Edith Wharton
- Touchstone (As You Like It), a fictional character in Shakespeare's As You Like It
- Touchstone (Garth Nix character), a fictional character from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy
- Touchstone (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
- Touchstone (Syphon Filter), a character from the Syphon Filter games
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Companies
- Touchstone Energy, an energy cooperative
- Touchstone Home Entertainment
- Touchstone Pictures, a film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- Touchstone Semiconductor, a manufacturer
- TouchStone Software
- Touchstone Studios
- Touchstone Television, a television production company formerly called Fox 21 Television Studios
- Touchstone Television (1985–2007), former name of television production company ABC Signature
- Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
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Other
- Touchstone (horse) (1831–1861), thoroughbred racehorse
- Touchstone (magazine), a Christian journal
- Touchstone file, a network parameter data file
- Touchstone Memorial Award
- Touchstone Theatre, a professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Operation Touchstone, a series of 14 nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1987 and 1988
- Touchstone, the brand name of the inductive charger for HP/Palm WebOS devices
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