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cuvettes

cuvettes is the plural 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.

Questions about cuvettes

What is cuvettes the plural of?
Cuvettes is the plural of cuvette.

Words near cuvettes in the dictionary

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

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