cuvette

[koo-vet, kyoo-]

noun

Also curvette. Also called chevee. a gemstone with a raised, cameolike figure or design carved on its hollowed surface.
Chemistry. a tube or vessel used in laboratory experimentation.

Origin of cuvette

1670–80; < French, diminutive of cuve vat ≪ Latin cūpa. See cup, -ette

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Historical Examples of cuvette

The cuvette is then raised by means of a crane, and lifted over the casting table.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.--February, 1851.--Vol. II.
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Cuvette, kv-et′, n. a trench sunk along the middle of a dry ditch or moat.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
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Each workman dips his ladle only three times, and empties its contents into the cuvette.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
Whenever the cuvette is set upon its carriage, it must be rapidly wheeled to its station near the crane.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure

British Dictionary definitions for cuvette

cuvette

noun

a shallow dish or vessel for holding liquid

Word Origin for cuvette

C17: from French, diminutive of cuve cask, from Latin cupa

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cuvette in Medicine

cuvette

[kyōō′vĕt]

A small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel.