English Explanatory Dictionary

cuvette

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
  2. A cunette.
  3. A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
  4. The inner lid of a timepiece.

Pronunciation

/kjuˈvɛt/

Word forms

cuvette cuvettes

Etymology

Borrowed from French cuvette.

Derived words

autocuvette electrocuvette hemocuvette microcuvette nucleocuvette
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