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cuvette

  • /kjuˈvɛt/

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noun cuvettes

  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.
  4. The inner lid of a timepiece.

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noun a casting pot

Русскийкюве́та kjuvéta

noun in chemistry

DeutschKüvette
Русскийкюве́та kjuvéta

noun a cunette; in fortification

Русскийкюве́т kjuvét

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@misc{cuvette_2026,
  title = {cuvette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cuvette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}