Touchstone

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

Literature

• The Touch-Stone, a 1728 satirical essay collection on London entertainments attributed to James Ralph
• The Touchstone (novella), a novella by Edith Wharton
• Touchstone (Garth Nix character), a fictional character from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy

Stage and film

• 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
• Prem Kahani (1937 film), working title Touchstone, an Indian romantic drama film
• Touchstone (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1

Music

• Touchstone (band), rock group from the U.K.
• Touchstone (album), a 1982 album by Chick Corea
• The Touchstone (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth
• Touchstone, an Irish-music band fronted by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill

Other

• Touchstone (Syphon Filter), a character from the Syphon Filter games

Companies

• Touchstone Energy, an energy cooperative
• Touchstone Home Entertainment
• Touchstone Pictures, a film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
• Touchstone Semiconductor, a manufacturer
• TouchStone Software
• Touchstone Studios
• Touchstone Television, a television production company formerly called Fox 21 Television Studios
• Touchstone Television (1985–2007), former name of television production company ABC Signature
• Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster

Other

• James Touchstone (died 1872), American politician from Maryland
• James M. Touchstone (1846–1886), American politician from Maryland
• Touchstone (horse) (1831–1861), thoroughbred racehorse
• Touchstone (magazine), a Christian journal
• Touchstone file, a network parameter data file
• Touchstone Memorial Award
• Touchstone Theatre, a professional theatre company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Operation Touchstone, 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
• Parasmani (lit. 'Touchstone'), a 1963 Indian film