universal stage

American  

noun

1. a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.

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Example Sentences

But while a universal stage, a truly global network, would be better, the American stage is the next best thing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within that brief space it has entered on the career of a national religion, and has also passed beyond the national into the universal stage, at which only two other religions have arrived at all.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan

Perhaps it is foolish to dwell upon an individual variety of an almost universal stage in the fever of life; but one exception to these indications of mental paralysis I think worth mentioning.

From The Portent & Other Stories by MacDonald, George

It is not unusual to regard tyranny as a universal stage in the constitutional development of the Greek states, and as a stage that occurs everywhere at one and the same period.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Heine does not, like Byron, make this transition from the personal to the universal stage.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred