cuvette

[koo-vet, kyoo-]

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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

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

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.

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Examples from the Web for cuvette

Historical Examples

The cuvette is then raised by means of a crane, and lifted over the casting table.

Cuvette, kv-et′, n. a trench sunk along the middle of a dry ditch or moat.

Each workman dips his ladle only three times, and empties its contents into the cuvette.

Whenever the cuvette is set upon its carriage, it must be rapidly wheeled to its station near the crane.

cuvette

Word Origin

cuvette

Origin of cuvette