Rosetta Stone

:Rosetta Stone can also refer to Rosetta Stone, a language learning software produced by Fairfield Language Technologies

Use as metaphor

Rosetta Stone is also used as a metaphor to refer to anything that is a critical key to a process of decryption, translation, or a difficult problem, e.g., "the Rosetta stone of immunology", "thalamocortical rhythms, the Rosetta Stone of a subset of neurological disorders", "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta stone of flowering time".

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Metaphor - Decryption - Translation - Immunology - Neurological disorders - Arabidopsis

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Today, there is a popular foreign language instructional software package called The Rosetta Stone. Also, the ESA space probe Rosetta is named after it, because it is hoped the mission will help unlock the secrets of how our solar system looked before planets formed.

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Foreign language - Software - ESA - Space probe - Rosetta - Solar system

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