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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The part of a microscope located below the stage on which attachments are held in place.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An attachment to the compound microscope, placed beneath the ordinary stage, and used to support the achromatic condenser, the polarizing prism, etc.
  • noun In geology, one of the subdivisions of a stage or group.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The stage, below the main stage of a microscope, to which attachments are fixed.
  • noun A stage making up part of a larger stage.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ stage

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