What's the difference between cunette and lunette?
Cunette
Definition:
(n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reflex excitability of the spinal motor centres was studied in newborns by the monosynaptic testing (H-reflex) method during the rise of air temperature in the cunette up to 32 degrees and 34 degrees as compared to the control data obtained at 30 degrees C. It was shown that at temperatures of 32 degrees and 34 degrees C the reflex excitability of spinal motoneurones is lower than in the control.
Lunette
Definition:
(n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
(n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
(n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
(n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
(n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
(n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.