Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, a narrow vessel of glass, porcelain, vulcanite, etc., for holding silver nitrate or other solutions: it is placed vertically or at an angle, and into it the photographic plate is dipped.
- noun . In decorative art, a portable basin of ornamental form in pottery or porcelain, etc., especially one of the flat-bottomed vessels commonly sold with an aiguière or water-pot: frequent in faience of the eighteenth century.
- noun . In glass manufacturing, a basin for receiving the melted glass after refining, and decanting it on the table to be rolled into a plate.
- noun . In fortification, a trench dug in the middle of a large dry ditch; a cunette.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
- noun (Fort.) A cunette.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
pot ,bucket , orbasin , in whichmolten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to thecasting table - noun a
cunette - noun analytical chemistry a small vessel with at least two flat and
transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to beanalysed in the light path of aspectrometer - noun an inner lid of a
timepiece
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Les oiseaux et les mammifères de la cuvette du Djoudj (delta du fleuve Sénégal).
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La faiencerie avec un bel etalage d'evier coloré et de cuvette de chiotte.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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A sample of the processed water was collected (50 cc) in a plastic vessel and another sample was taken for spectrophotometry in its plastic cuvette.
Chapter 4 1990
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No sooner had we left that beautiful _cuvette_ than we came to a magnificent flat open valley extending from E.S.E. to W.N.W. In its northern part, where a pool of stagnant water was to be found, were innumerable _burity_ palms.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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We were then in a grassy basin -- another _cuvette_ with two central tufts of thickly packed trees.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Beyond it was a _cuvette_ with its typical central line of
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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In proceeding across the immense circular _cuvette_ I found that the central line of thick vegetation formed an angle.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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The elevation of the upper edge of the _cuvette_ was 2,500 ft., that of the bottom 2,450 ft.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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A deep deposit of grey ashes and sand encircled this _cuvette_.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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In fact, the summit of that particular table-land was made up of subsidiary domes dividing _cuvette_ from _cuvette_ in succession.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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