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Abbe (name) Abbe is both a surname and a given name. As a surname, Abbé is of French origin (from ''abed'' (), "priest"), either as critical nickname for a sanctimonious person or as an occupational surname for someone working in the household of a priest. A ...

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Abbe (crater) Abbe is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is located just to the south of the crater Hess, and lies to the east of the large walled basin Poincaré. It is named after the Ge ...

, a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon *

Lake Abbe Lake Abbe, also known as Lake Abhe Bad, is a salt lake (geography), salt lake, lying on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. It is one of a chain of six connected lakes, which also includes (from north to south) lakes Lake Gargori, Gargori, Lake Laitali ...

, African lake * Abbe Falls, waterfalls in India

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Abbé ''Abbé'' (from Latin , in turn from Greek , , from Aramaic ''abba'', a title of honour, literally meaning "the father, my father", emphatic state of ''abh'', "father") is the French word for an abbot. It is also the title used for lower-ranki ...

, the French word for abbot *

Abbe condenser A condenser is an optical lens that renders a divergent light beam from a point light source into a parallel or converging beam to illuminate an object to be imaged. Condensers are an essential part of any imaging device, such as microscopes, ...

, a component of a microscope * Abbe lip switch, a method of lip reconstruction *

Abbe number In optics and lens design, the Abbe number, also known as the Vd-number or constringence of a Transparency (optics), transparent material, is an approximate measure of the material's dispersion (optics), dispersion (change of refractive index versu ...

, a measure of the material's optical dispersion *

Abbe prism In optics, an Abbe prism, named for its inventor, the German physicist Ernst Abbe, is a type of constant deviation dispersive prism similar to a Pellin–Broca prism. Structure The prism consists of a block of glass forming a right prism with 3 ...

, a type of constant deviation dispersive prism similar to a Pellin–Broca prism *

Abbe refractometer An Abbe refractometer is a bench-top device for the high-precision measurement of an Refractive index, index of refraction. Details Ernst Abbe (1840–1905), working for Carl Zeiss AG in Jena, Germany in the late 19th century, was the first ...

, a bench-top refractometer that offers the highest precision of the different types of refractometers *

Abbe sine condition In optics, the Abbe sine condition is a condition that must be fulfilled by a lens or other optical system in order for it to produce sharp images of off-axis as well as on-axis objects. It was formulated by Ernst Abbe in the context of microscope ...

, a condition that must be fulfilled by a lens or other optical system in order for it to produce sharp images of off-axis as well as on-axis objects *

Abbe Creek School The historic Abbe Creek School is a one-room schoolhouse museum located one mile west of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, on E48. It is believed to be the oldest standing one room brick schoolhouse in Iowa.Booklet prepared by Linn County Historical Museum The ...

, historical school house in Iowa

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