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Touchstone (assaying tool) file:Pierre de touche.jpg, Touchstone set A touchstone is a small tablet of dark stone such as slate or lydite, used for Metallurgical assay, assaying precious metal alloys. It has a finely grained surface on which soft metals leave a visible tra ...

, a stone used to identify precious metals *

Touchstone (metaphor) As a metaphor, a touchstone is any physical or intellectual measure by which the validity or merit of a concept can be tested. It is similar in use to an acid test (gold), acid test, or a litmus test (politics), litmus test in politics. The word ...

, a means of assaying relative merits of a concept

Entertainment

* ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea *

Touchstone (English band) Touchstone are an English progressive rock band. The band was formed by keyboardist Rob Cottingham and guitarist Adam Hodgson in 2003. The name was thought up by Rob, being taken from a lyric in his solo album, Behind The Orchard Tree. Touchs ...

, rock group from the U.K. *

Touchstone (US-Irish band) 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 Entertainment * Touchstone (album), ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album ...

, Irish-music band from the U.S. * ''The Touchstone'' (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth * ''The Touchstone'' (novella), a novella by Edith Wharton * ''The Touchstone'' (play), an 1817 comedy play by James Kenney * 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 * ''Prem Kahani'' (1937 film), working title ''Touchstone'', an Indian romantic drama film

Companies

Touchstone Energy Touchstone Energy Cooperatives (also called simply Touchstone) is a cooperative federation composed of more than 750 local, consumer-owned utility cooperatives in 46 states in the United States The United States of America (USA), also know ...

, an energy cooperative *

Touchstone Home Entertainment 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 Entertainment * ''Touchstone'' (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea * To ...

Touchstone Pictures Touchstone Pictures was an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured ...

, a film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures * Touchstone Semiconductor, a manufacturer *

TouchStone Software TouchStone Software Corporation, Inc., founded in 1982, is an American software developer for the personal computer (PC) industry, specializing in system update technology.Touchstone Studios *

Touchstone Television The second incarnation of Touchstone Television, formerly known as Fox 21 Television Studios, was an American television production company and a subsidiary of the Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks business s ...

, a television production company formerly called Fox 21 Television Studios * Touchstone Television (1985–2007), former name of television production company

ABC Signature ABC Signature was a production arm of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), which is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio ...

* Touchstone Books, an imprint of

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group US ...

Other

James Touchstone James Touchstone (died December 14, 1872) was an American politician from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Cecil County from 1868 to 1870. Career Touchstone was a Democrat. He served as a membe ...

(died 1872), American politician from Maryland * James M. Touchstone (1846–1886), American politician from Maryland *

Touchstone (horse) Touchstone (1831–1861) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland on four occasions. He was owned and bred by Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, who bought him for the low price, at the ...

(1831–1861), thoroughbred racehorse * ''Touchstone'' (magazine), a Christian journal *

Touchstone file A Touchstone file was originally a proprietary file format for the eponymous frequency-domain linear circuit simulator from EEsof, launched in 1984 and acquired by HP. The simulator has been called HP/EEsof, then its engine has been successively ...

, a network parameter data file *

Touchstone Memorial Award The F. Morris Touchstone Award is an award given by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association to the nation's most outstanding NCAA Division I lacrosse head coach. The award was first presented in 1958. The award is named after F. M ...

Touchstone Theatre Touchstone Theatre is a professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1976 by a group of University of British Columbia theatre graduates. Touchstone's focus is on the development and production of work by Canad ...

, a professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada *

Operation Touchstone The United States's Touchstone nuclear test series was a group of 13 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 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 * ''The Touchstone'', a polemical work by

Ibn Shaprut Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela () (born at Tudela, Kingdom of Navarre in the middle of the 14th century) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and polemicist. He is often confused with the physician Shem-Tob ben Isaac of Tortosa, ...

* ''

Parasmani ''Parasmani'' ("Philosopher's stone" that converts iron into gold) is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language film. The film is a musical fantasy drama shot partly in Black and White and partly in colour. It was directed by Babubhai Mistri, who is known as ...

'' (), a 1963 Indian film {{disambiguation, surname