(n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
(n.) A cunette.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(2) The measured cardiac output is compared with values of cardiac output simultaneously determined using a cuvette densitometer.
(3) A monolayer of red cells was placed in a closed reaction cuvette set on a microscope stage, a light beam of 5 to 10 mum in diameter was directed into one of the red cells, and the light transmission change in the cell was analyzed.
(4) Tests of the wedge cuvette method with Evans Blue and Malachite Green serial dilutions as well as with haemoglobin solutions at several oxygen saturations demonstrate that accuracy of the order of 1% can be obtained.
(5) In purification procedures with microbial collagenases many fractions were tested by overnight incubations in disposable cuvettes.
(6) In this photometric platelet aggregation test (PAT III) a small amount (0.6 ml) of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is being rotated in a disc-shaped cuvette at 20 rpm, at 37% C. Changes in optical density of PRP which are induced by the formation of platelet aggregates are continuously registered using a chart recorder.
(7) Combination of the photometers with a "cuvette test" produced satisfactory results on comparison with a reliable reference method.
(8) Initial experiments whereby diluted tear samples were incubated with special polyacrylate ELISA microcuvettes showed no binding of tear-lactoferrin to the cuvettes whereas a marked binding of purified lactoferrin could be observed.
(9) A peristaltic pump, a controlled-temperature water bath, and a spectrophotometer with flow cuvette are the only special apparatus required.
(10) Illumination with a medium-wave uv lamp of samples placed in disposable, dual pathlength, polystyrene fluorescence cuvettes allows treatment of small sample volumes (greater than or equal to 100 microliters) of various optical density.
(11) Two microliters, or less, of blood is diluted with an ammonium hydroxide solution directly in the measuring cuvette.
(12) Specimens can be homogeneously Feulgen-stained if a high constancy of temperature is realized in the staining cuvette during acid hydrolysis.
(13) As the instrument spins the rotor, capillary and rotational forces process the blood into diluted plasma, distribute the patient's diluted sample to cuvettes containing the reagent beads, and mix the diluted sample with the reagents.
(14) Very small PVC-matrix ISE with internal diameters as small as 0.035 inches were constructed and used in combination with small cuvettes, so that measurements could be carried out in 250 muL of stirred solution.
(15) To evaluate accuracy, the dye-dilution (cuvette) method was simultaneously employed in some subjects.
(16) Peritoneal mast cells from rat were co-incubated in vitro in a platelet aggregometer cuvette with washed rabbit platelets.
(17) The mixing chamber houses a disposable plastic cuvette stirred with a magnetic stirrer.
(18) The space in the cuvette prevented the red cells from drying thereby providing favorable physiological conditions during measurements.
(19) When dithionite-reduced enzyme sits in an open cuvette, the enzyme returns to the oxidized state, and the fluorescence maximum shifts back to 328 nm.
(20) The AO cuvette is very suitable for use in this measurement, since this method requires less than 15 microliters of serum.
Timepiece
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No, I did not," Pistorius said, "except for the police stealing my watches, my lady," he said referring to luxury timepieces that had gone missing at the Steenkamp crime scene.
(2) After it emerged that the Brazilian FA had handed out 65 designer watches worth more than £1m at the World Cup Dyke said he had no idea the timepiece was worth so much and that he would return it as requested .
(3) The presence of timepieces and patients' use of television were associated with higher levels of mental clarity.
(4) Murray frantically searched for the £2,500 timepiece before members of his box finally told him to look in his bag.
(5) In Phase I (12 weeks), 36 patients were randomly assigned to a medication vial equipped with a cap containing a digital timepiece that displays the last time the cap was removed.
(6) Covered stands shelter nearly 10,000 seats while an executive box looks down from what, thanks to its timepiece, can only be the clock end.
(7) Results of the two-phase study showed statistically significant increases in medication compliance associated with statistically and clinically significant reductions in blood pressure for all patients using the timepiece cap.
(8) Phase II (12 weeks) combined use of the timepiece cap with other compliance aids: a pocket-size card for recording blood pressure and a blood pressure cuff for self-monitoring.
(9) A miniature gold carriage clock had been placed at his table setting, but he still checked his wrist – modest shirt buttons, no cufflinks, under a sober black suit – for his slightly battered brown wristwatch, a far cry from Sarkozy's famously expensive timepieces.
(10) The French actor Gérard Depardieu has partnered with Swiss watch manufacturer Cvstos to launch a line of new timepieces under the banner "Proud to be Russian".
(11) Patients using the timepiece cap and the card had an average compliance rate of 98.7% with mean decreases of 11 mm Hg in systolic pressure (P less than .01) and 7.64 Hg mm in diastolic pressure (P = .0001).
(12) Viewed from our lofty 21st-century vantage point, it already seems something of a timepiece: a snapshot of a specific era in US culture; a tenuous accessory to crimes that have been duly tried, sentenced and consigned to history.
(13) Subjects using the timepiece cap showed an average compliance rate of 95.1%, an average decrease in systolic pressure of 7.6 mm Hg (P = .006), and an average decrease in diastolic pressure of 8.8 mm Hg (P less than .001).
(14) They are a little easier to wear than the computer-aided spectacles it is still tinkering with, and enthusiasts will no doubt put the hi-tech timepieces on their wish lists.
(15) Timepieces with touchscreens, made by Samsung (pictured) and LG using Google's software for wearable devices, went on sale on Wednesday from the company's online shop.
(16) This method requires only a radiation-rate meter, special graph paper, and a timepiece.
(17) Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering hobbyist, made the timepiece and brought it to school in the hope of impressing teachers and fellow students in his first few weeks at MacArthur High School.