A British surname.
Used in a Sentence
abbe
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for abbe.
Editorial note
Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said last week that a magistrate judge rejected charges against Lemon.
Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A British surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of abbe gathered in one view.
Alternative spelling of abbé. [A low-ranking member of the Roman Catholic clergy in France who is not a member of a religious order, is not a priest, and can marry and inherit property; an honorific title for such a clergymember.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for abbe.
noun
A British surname.
noun
Alternative spelling of abbé. [A low-ranking member of the Roman Catholic clergy in France who is not a member of a religious order, is not a priest, and can marry and inherit property; an honorific title for such a clergymember.]
Example sentences
Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said last week that a magistrate judge rejected charges against Lemon.
I chose lenses with the highest Abbe number that I could find but there are still chromatic aberrations.
Optical tweezers operating below the Abbe diffraction limit are probably of use in resecting neurovascular tissue in the optic nerve (the retina and visual cortex)?
As I understand it, employer-provided health insurance was first introduced by Ernst Abbe through his oversight of the Carl Zeiss company, in Germany.
Starting with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it buries the rest of that sentence in paragraph 5: USC (University of Southern California) and the Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
He actually showed that an additional intensity-dependent term can be added to Abbe's diffraction limit allowing sub 100um resolution with light.
I thought it was a scale of code that could have been included in Abbe.
It's not refractive index itself that's the problem, it's dispersion (roughly, the degree to which refractive index varies across the visual spectrum, described by ‘Abbe number’).
Abbe is one of my favorite unsung tech heroes.
An excellent lens has a numerical aperture of maybe 0.95 at best, so with Abbe's formula you get a resolution limit of maybe 200 nm at best.
At the currently known limits of physics where Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Abbe's Limit, Quantum Shot Noise and such become our sensing barriers, we suspect we need only about 6000 bits per pixel to represent a digital twin of the electromagnetic field of the sensor-covered volume of space.
Proper noun examples
He actually showed that an additional intensity-dependent term can be added to Abbe's diffraction limit allowing sub 100um resolution with light.
I thought it was a scale of code that could have been included in Abbe.
It's not refractive index itself that's the problem, it's dispersion (roughly, the degree to which refractive index varies across the visual spectrum, described by ‘Abbe number’).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use abbe in a sentence?
Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said last week that a magistrate judge rejected charges against Lemon.
What does abbe mean?
A British surname.
What part of speech is abbe?
abbe is commonly used as noun.