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epruvette

epruvette is the alternative form of eprouvette.

Meaning of eprouvette

Noun

eprouvette (plural eprouvettes)

  1. A one-piece, fixed-elevation mortar formerly used to test the strength of gunpowder.
    • From there, he’s on to making things like fuses, rockets and an eprouvette, or small cannon.2009 June 10, Dwight Garner, “For Those Who Like Danger, the Home Book of Things Not to Try at Home”, in New York Times

Forms of epruvette

pluralepruvettes

Questions about epruvette

What is epruvette the alternative form of?
Epruvette is the alternative form of eprouvette.

Words near epruvette in the dictionary

  1. eprovafen
  2. eproxindine
  3. eprozinol
  4. EPRs
  5. epruinose
  6. epruvette
  7. epruvettes
  8. eps
  9. EPSG
  10. Epshteyn
  11. epsila

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