ALL meanings of whetstone
whet·stone
W w - noun whetstone stone for sharpening tools 1
- noun whetstone a stone for sharpening cutlery or tools by friction. 1
- noun whetstone anything that sharpens: a whetstone for dull wits. 1
- noun whetstone A fine-grained stone used for sharpening cutting tools. 1
- noun Technical meaning of whetstone (benchmark) The first major synthetic benchmark program, intended to be representative for numerical (floating-point intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by Brian Wichmann at the National Physical Laboratory in England, using an Algol 60 compiler which translated Algol into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed. The later dhrystone benchmark was a pun on Whetstone. Source code: C, single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran. 1
- countable noun whetstone A whetstone is a stone which is used for sharpening knives or other tools that have a blade. 0
- noun whetstone a stone used for sharpening edged tools, knives, etc 0
- noun whetstone something that sharpens 0
- noun whetstone an abrasive stone for sharpening knives or other edged tools 0