Tombstone (disambiguation)
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A tombstone is a headstone marking a grave.

Tombstone may also refer to:
  • Tombstone, Arizona
    Tombstone, Arizona
    Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West. From about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD $40 to $85 million...

    , a town in Arizona


Business and technology

  • Tombstone (advertising)
    Tombstone (advertising)
    In advertising, a tombstone is a particular type of print advertisement appearing in a newspaper or magazine. Tombstone ads are typically unadorned text, black on white, often enclosed in a simple box, with a centered headline and a number of lines in the body of the ad, usually also centered...

    , a particular type of text-only print advertisement
    • Tombstone (financial industry)
      Tombstone (financial industry)
      Tombstone are advertisements that are most often used in the financial industry, where a particular transaction, such as an offering or placement of stock of a company, is formally announced...

      , a permitted advertisement for an initial public offering of a stock
  • Tombstone (data store)
    Tombstone (data store)
    A tombstone is a deleted record in a replica of a distributed data store. The tombstone is necessary, as distributed data stores use eventual consistency, where only a subset of nodes where the data is stored must respond before an operation is considered to be successful.- Motivation :If an...

    , a sign in a replica that information has been deleted
  • Tombstone (manufacturing)
    Tombstone (manufacturing)
    A tombstone, also known as a pedestal-type fixture, tooling tower, tooling column or fixture block, is a fixture of two to six or more sides, onto which are mounted parts to be manufactured...

    , a fixture onto which are placed parts to be manufactured
  • Tombstone (pizza)
    Tombstone (pizza)
    Tombstone is a brand of frozen pizza. It is available in several varieties, including pepperoni and sausage. The package design typically includes images of a cactus and the pizza.-History:...

    , a brand of frozen pizza
  • Tombstone (programming)
    Tombstone (programming)
    Tombstones are a mechanism to detect dangling pointers that can appear in certain computer programming languages, e. g. C, C++ and assembly languages, and to act as a containment to their dangerous effects....

    , a mechanism to detect dangling pointers
  • Tombstone (typography)
    Tombstone (typography)
    The tombstone, halmos, or end of proof mark "" is used in mathematics to denote the end of a proof, in place of the traditional abbreviation "QED" for the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum" ....

    , a symbol often used in mathematical proofs
  • TOMB STONE, a type of radar in some versions of the Russian SA-10A Grumble surface-to-air missile systems

Popular culture

  • Tombstone (comics)
    Tombstone (comics)
    Tombstone is a supervillain in the fictional Marvel universe. The character was created by Gerry Conway and Alex Saviuk and first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #36 .-Fictional character biography:...

    , a Marvel Comics character
  • Tombstone (film)
    Tombstone (film)
    Tombstone is a 1993 American action film set in the Old West directed by George P. Cosmatos, along with uncredited directorial efforts by actor Kurt Russell and writer Kevin Jarre. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Jarre....

    , a 1993 western
  • Tombstone Records
    Tombstone Records
    Tombstone Records is an American record label that was founded in 1988 by Fred Cole of Dead Moon in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Toody.The label was named for the musical equipment store they operated at the time...

    , a record label
  • Al Poling, a professional wrestler who once used the ring name Tombstone
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