cuvette

Borrowed from French cuvette.

• IPA^(key): /kjuˈvɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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. (military) 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.
   • 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^[1], →DOI:

     The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor.

4. The inner lid of a timepiece.

From cuve +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /ky.vɛt/

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cuvette f (plural cuvettes)

1. basin, bowl; washbowl
2. basin, washbasin (in bathroom)
3. pan (of toilet)
4. (photography) dish
5. (geology) basin

• → English: cuvette
• → German: Küvette
• → Portuguese: cuvete
• → Romanian: chiuvetă
• → Turkish: küvet

• “cuvette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012