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cover slip

cover slip is the alternative form of coverslip.

Meaning of coverslip

Noun

coverslip (plural coverslips)

  1. A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide.
    Synonyms:
    coverglass

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Forms of cover slip

pluralcover slips

Questions about cover slip

What is cover slip the alternative form of?
Cover slip is the alternative form of coverslip.

Words near cover slip in the dictionary

  1. cover sand
  2. cover sands
  3. cover shorts
  4. cover slide
  5. cover slides
  6. cover slip
  7. cover slips
  8. cover someone's ass
  9. cover someone's back
  10. cover song
  11. cover songs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cover slip (page history and authors); coverslip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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