universal stage

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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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universal stage

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This stage of buddhis may thus be regarded as the most universal stage, which comprehends within it all the buddhis of individuals and potentially all the matter of which the gross world is formed.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Bearing this in mind, the number of survivals that do occur are, I hold, extraordinary, and, indeed, impossible to account for if the maternal family was not a universal stage in the development of society.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

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