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cuvette

/kjuˈvɛt/

cuvette noun: a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

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.

cuvette meaning in Tamil

cuvette in Tamil

கிண்ணம்

Forms of cuvette

pluralcuvettes

Origin of cuvette

Borrowed from French cuvette.

Words formed from cuvette

Words that rhyme with cuvette

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Questions about cuvette

What does cuvette mean?
Cuvette means a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
What is cuvette in Tamil?
Cuvette in Tamil is கிண்ணம். See Cuvette meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cuvette?
Cuvette is a noun.
How do you pronounce cuvette?
Cuvette is pronounced /kjuˈvɛt/.
What is the plural of cuvette?
The plural of cuvette is cuvettes.

Words near cuvette in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuvette (page history and authors); cuvette (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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