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stage

1. the platform in a theatre where actors perform

2. the. the theatre as a profession

3. short for stagecoach

4. Brit a division of a bus route for which there is a fixed fare

5. any of the various distinct periods of growth or development in the life of an organism, esp an insect

6. the organism itself at such a period of growth

7. a small stratigraphical unit; a subdivision of a rock series or system

8. the platform on a microscope on which the specimen is mounted for examination

9. Electronics a part of a complex circuit, esp one of a number of transistors with the associated elements required to amplify a signal in an amplifier

10. a university subject studied for one academic year

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stage [stāj]

(aerospace engineering)

A self-propelled separable element of a rocket vehicle or spacecraft.

(electronics)

A circuit containing a single section of an electron tube or equivalent device or two or more similar sections connected in parallel, push-pull, or push-push; it includes all parts connected between the control-grid input terminal of the device and the input terminal of the next adjacent stage.

(geology)

A developmental phase of an erosion cycle in which landscape features have distinctive characteristic forms.

A phase in the historical development of a geologic feature.

A major subdivision of a glacial epoch.

A time-stratigraphic unit ranking below series and above chronozone, composed of rocks formed during an age of geologic time.

(hydrology)

The elevation of the water surface in a stream as measured by a river gage with reference to some arbitrarily selected zero datum. Also knonw as stream stage.

(mining engineering)

A certain length of underground roadway worked by one horse.

A narrow thin dike, especially one where the material of which the dike is composed is soft.

A platform on which mine cars stand.