•a cuvette; a container with vertical walls, made from plastic, glass or quartz, used in spectography · an upright standing container of glass for the silver nitrate solution, into which a photographic glass plate is dipped and soaked (stående kyvett) · a dish; a horizontal, flat, rectangular bowl, used when developing prints (liggande kyvett)
köken: From cup + -eta. Some usages influenced by French cuvette.
Etimoloji
From French cuvette (bowl, washbasin), diminutive of cuve (tank, tub), from Latin cupa; used in Swedish since 1691 (kuvette), 1832 (kuvett), 1874 (kyvett).