(the) Rosetta Stone

(the) Rosetta Stone
the Rosetta Stone UK [rəʊˈzetə ˌstəʊn] US [roʊˈzetə ˌstoʊn] noun
Etymology
From a stone found in Egypt that contained the same information written in three different languages.
a discovery that makes it possible for people to understand something that was previously secret or impossible to know http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/rosetta-stone-the.htm
Thesaurus: inventing and inventions or discoverieshyponym to build something, or to be builtsynonym

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