Cuvette

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
  • n. a cunette
  • n. 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
  • n. an inner lid of a timepiece
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
  • n. A cunette.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. . 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.
  • n. . In glass manufacturing, a basin for receiving the melted glass after refining, and decanting it on the table to be rolled into a plate.
  • n. . In fortification, a trench dug in the middle of a large dry ditch; a cunette.
  • n. 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.
    • Word Usage
    "Les oiseaux et les mammifères de la cuvette du Djoudj (delta du fleuve Sénégal)."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cunette   
     
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