cuvette

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

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.
    • The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor. - 2015 August 15, “Spatial and Temporal Control of Cavitation Allows High In Vitro...
  4. The inner lid of a timepiece.

Origin

Etymology tree French cuve Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French cuvettebor. English cuvette Borrowed from French cuvette.

Forms

cuvettes

Derived

autocuvette electrocuvette hemocuvette microcuvette nucleocuvette