Definitions for cuvettes

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cuvettes cu·vette

Spelling: [koo-vet, kyoo-]

IPA: /kuˈvɛt, kyu-/

Cuvettes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in cuvettes (ceesttuv).

Definitions for cuvettes

noun

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

Origin of cuvettes

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

Examples for cuvettes

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

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

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.