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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
• Touchstone (band), rock group from the U.K.
• Touchstone (US-Irish band), Irish-music band from the U.S.
• The Touchstone (album), by British jazz trio Azimuth
• The Touchstone, a novella by Edith Wharton
• 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

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