Whetstone may refer to:
Tools and technology
* Whetstone, a
sharpening stone
Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpening, sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knife, knives through grinding and Honing (metalworking), honing.
Such stones come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and material compositions. ...
used for knives and other cutting tools
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Hornfels
Hornfels is the group name for a set of Metamorphism#Contact .28thermal.29, contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and hardened by the heat of Intrusive rock, intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in ...
, a type of stone sometimes called whetstone
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Whetstone (benchmark)
The Whetstone benchmark is a synthetic 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 Central Computer and T ...
, 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 the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a se ...
, 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 suburb of north London, in the London Borough of Barnet, bearing the postcode London N20, N20. It is served by an Underground station called Totteridge and Whetstone (Totteridge being to the west of Whetstone). Whetstone is aroun ...
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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 Priestwe ...
, 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 3,236 at the 2020 census.
History
Whetstone was often referred to as the "Y" because the intersection of State R ...
, 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 mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The U ...
, 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 weste ...
in South Dakota and Minnesota
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Whetstone Gulf State Park
Whetstone Gulf State Park is a state park located in Lewis County, New York. The park is on the edge of the Tug Hill Plateau, south of Lowville, on the border of the towns of Turin and Martinsburg. The east end of the park is located near Ne ...
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 accommoda ...
, a high school located in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio
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Whetstone Mountain in Colorado
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Whetstone Mountains in Arizona
Other uses
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Whetstone (surname)
See also
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Wheatstone (disambiguation)
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