Abbe may refer to:
People
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Abbe (name) Abbe is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
*Caroline Abbé (born 1988), Swiss footballer
*Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), American meteorologist
*Cleveland Abbe Jr. (1872–1934), American geographer
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Places
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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 German ...
, a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon
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Lake Abbe, African lake
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Abbe Falls, waterfalls in India
Other uses
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Abbé
''Abbé'' (from Latin ''abbas'', in turn from Greek , ''abbas'', 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 the title for lowe ...
, the French word for abbot
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Abbe condenser
A condenser is an optical lens which renders a divergent beam from a point source into a parallel or converging beam to illuminate an object.
Condensers are an essential part of any imaging device, such as microscopes, enlargers, slide projecto ...
, a component of a microscope
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Abbe lip switch, a method of lip reconstruction
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Abbe number, a measure of the material's optical dispersion
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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 wi ...
, a type of constant deviation dispersive prism similar to a Pellin–Broca prism
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Abbe refractometer, a bench-top refractometer that offers the highest precision of the different types of refractometers
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Abbe sine condition, 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
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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 s ...
, historical school house in Iowa
See also
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L'Abbé (disambiguation)
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