bell jar

English

bell jar (sense 1)

bell jar (sense 2)

Noun

bell jar (plural bell jars)

1. A piece of laboratory equipment used for creating vacuums, often made of glass in a bell-like shape.
2. A bell-shaped glass used to cover and protect items such as food.

Translations

laboratory equipment

• Dutch: stolp (nl) f
• Finnish: lasikello, lasikupu
• German: Vakuumglocke f, Glasglocke f
• Polish: dzwon szklany m

glass to cover items

• Catalan: formatgera (for cheese)
• Dutch: stolp (nl) f
• Finnish: lasikupu
• German: (from glass:) Glassturz m, Glasglocke f, Glashaube f, Käseglocke (de) f (for cheese), (from any material:) Glocke (de) f, Haube (de) f
• Polish: pokrywka (pl) f
• Swedish: glaskupa c, glasklocka c

See also

• (bell-shaped glass cover): cloche

Further reading

• bell jar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia