Definitions
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 amicroscope , to whichattachments are fixed. - noun A
stage making up part of a larger stage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This combination is carried in a screw-centering holder known as the substage below the stage of the microscope (Fig. 40 f), and must be accurately adjusted so that its optical axis coincides with that of the objective.
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He was explaining how to take pictures thru a microscope using a camera back and the substage diaphragm he was referring to is the one under the stage of a microscope.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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In Handbook for Scientific Photography (1977), Alfred A. Blaker wrote: As the substage diaphragm is closed, the depth of field increases (as when you close the diaphragm of your camera lens) ...
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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Blaker wrote:As the substage diaphragm is closed, the depth of field increases as when you close the diaphragm of your camera lens...
Depth of field, f-numbers and diffraction (or how to take a rotten photograph) AYDIN 2009
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He was explaining how to take pictures thru a microscope using a camera back and the substage diaphragm he was referring to is the one under the stage of a microscope.
Depth of field, f-numbers and diffraction (or how to take a rotten photograph) AYDIN 2009
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The next time he went out, he didn't come back until he'd found a decent instrument; triple nose stage, substage for condenser and polarizer, good base, smooth movement, iris diaphragm, good lenses.
I Am Legend Matheson, Richard, 1926- 1954
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Moreover, the instrument had no substage to hold condenser or polarizer.
I Am Legend Matheson, Richard, 1926- 1954
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He filled the time consumed by the staining process with the ritual of aiming the microscope's substage mirror out the window at a brilliant white cloud.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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~ -- Below the substage condenser is attached a gymbal carrying
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If it no longer occupies the centre of the field, alter the angle of the substage mirror until it does.
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