Whetstone may refer to:
Tools and technology
* Whetstone, a
sharpening stone
Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing.
Such stones come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and material compositions. They may be flat, for working flat edg ...
used for knives and other cutting tools
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Hornfels
Hornfels is the group name for a set of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and hardened by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable. These pro ...
, a type of stone sometimes called whetstone
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Whetstone (benchmark)
The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic Benchmark (computing), benchmark for evaluating the performance of computers. It was first written in Algol 60 in 1972 at the Technical Support Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry (later part of the ...
, a benchmark for measuring computing power
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Operation Whetstone
The United States's Whetstone nuclear test series was a group of 46 nuclear test
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, Nuclear weapon yield, yield, and explosive capability. Testing ...
, a nuclear test program in the 1960s
Places
United Kingdom
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Whetstone, Leicestershire
Whetstone is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England and largely acts as a commuter village for Leicester, five miles to the north. The population at the 2011 census was 6,556. It is part of the Leicester ...
, a village and civil parish
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Whetstone, London
Whetstone is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, bearing the postcode N20. It is to the east of Totteridge, and these areas are known together as Totteridge and Whetstone. Whetstone is around 8.5 miles North of Charing Cross and is within ...
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Whetstones (stone circle)
The Whetstones are, or were, a stone circle beneath Corndon Hill in the parish of Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire, Wales, near the border with Shropshire, England. They lie immediately to the west of the village of White Grit and close to Priest ...
, an ancient pagan monument in Powys, Wales
United States
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Whetstone, Arizona
Whetstone is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, north of Sierra Vista. The population was 2,617 at the 2010 census.
History
Whetstone was often referred to as the "Y" because the intersection of State rou ...
, a census-designated place
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Whetstone, West Virginia
Whetstone is an unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...
, an unincorporated community
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Whetstone River
The Whetstone River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 5, 2012 tributary of the Minnesota River, in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of wester ...
in South Dakota and Minnesota
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Whetstone Gulf State Park in New York
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Whetstone High School (Columbus, Ohio)
Whetstone High School is a public high school located at 4405 Scenic Drive in Columbus, Ohio. It is a part of Columbus City Schools and the neighborhood of Clintonville. Whetstone's mascot is the Brave.
The school opened in 1961 to accommodate ...
, a high school located in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio
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Whetstone Mountain
Whetstone Mountain, elevation , is a summit in the Gunnison National Forest of western Colorado. The mountain is located south of Crested Butte in Gunnison County. Whetstone Mountain is one of several prominent laccoliths found in the West Elk ...
in Colorado
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Whetstone Mountains
The Whetstone Mountains is a mountain range in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.
Geography
The range is located south of Interstate 10, between the Santa Rita Mountains to the west, and the Dragoon Mountains to the east. Higher elevations ...
in Arizona
Other uses
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Whetstone (surname)
See also
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Wheatstone (disambiguation)
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