Stone (disambiguation)

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Stone may refer to:

In 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

, the types of stone used in building, sculpture, and masonry work

In 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

, a list of naturally-occurring rock types

In print and literature

In film and television

In music

Other uses

  • Stoning, a method of execution carried out by throwing rocks at the victim
  • Gemstone, a type of visually attractive stone used in jewelry
  • Stone (weight), a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds avoirdupois
  • Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds avoirdupois
  • Calculus (medicine), a painful concretion of materials in organs or ducts, commonly known as e.g. gallstones
  • Stoneware, a clay or ceramic material
  • Stone Brewing Company, a brewery in Escondido, California
  • Stones Bitter, a bitter beer from Yorkshire
  • The NATO reporting code name for the Russian SS-26 Iskander
  • A physical token used in a board game
  • The hard covering enclosing the seed of a drupe such as a peach