cuvette
noun/kjuˈvɛt/
Etymology Borrowed from French cuvette.
1
A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
2
Government, Military, Politics, War A cunette.
3
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.
Analytical chemistry
- The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor.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, →DOI:
4
The inner lid of a timepiece.
- Derived terms
- autocuvette, electrocuvette, hemocuvette, microcuvette, nucleocuvette