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cuvet

cuvet is the alternative form of cuvette.

Meaning of cuvette

Noun

cuvette (plural 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. (analytical chemistry) 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 Transfection Efficiency in the Absence of Transfection Reagents or Contrast Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  4. The inner lid of a timepiece.

Forms of cuvet

pluralcuvets

Questions about cuvet

What is cuvet the alternative form of?
Cuvet is the alternative form of cuvette.

Words near cuvet in the dictionary

  1. cuuuter
  2. cuuutest
  3. CUV
  4. cuvee
  5. cuvees
  6. cuvet
  7. cuvets
  8. cuvette
  9. cuvettes
  10. cuvier
  11. Cuvier's dwarf caiman

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