noun. A small, transparent, often tubular laboratory vessel.

noun. In photography, a narrow vessel of glass, porcelain, vulcanite, etc., for holding silver nitrate or other solutions: it is placed vertically or at an angle, and into it the photographic plate is dipped.

noun. . In decorative art, a portable basin of ornamental form in pottery or porcelain, etc., especially one of the flat-bottomed vessels commonly sold with an aiguière or water-pot: frequent in faience of the eighteenth century.

noun. . In glass manufacturing, a basin for receiving the melted glass after refining, and decanting it on the table to be rolled into a plate.

noun. . In fortification, a trench dug in the middle of a large dry ditch; a cunette.

noun. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

noun. A cunette.

noun. a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table

noun. a cunette

noun. 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

noun. an inner lid of a timepiece

"Les oiseaux et les mammifères de la cuvette du Djoudj (delta du fleuve Sénégal)."

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