watch glass

English

Noun

watch glass (plural watch glasses)

1. (chemistry) An item of glass laboratory equipment consisting of a simple, slightly concave circle of glass. It is a general utility item, used to hold small samples, to evaporate liquids, to cover a beaker, and so on.
2. The glass covering of the face of a watch.
3. A sandglass, hourglass.

Translations

laboratory equipment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錶面皿 / 表面皿 (biǎomiànmǐn)

• Dutch: horlogeglas n
• Finnish: kellolasi
• French: verre de montre (fr) m
• German: Uhrglas (de) n, Uhrglasschale f
• Greek: ύαλος ωρολογίου f (ýalos orologíou)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: óraüveg (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: szkiełko zegarkowe (pl) n
• Romanian: sticlă de ceas f
• Russian: часово́е стекло́ n (časovóje stekló), предме́тное стекло́ n (predmétnoje stekló) (technically a hypernym, as it is not implied to have a particular form)
• Serbo-Croatian: satno staklo n
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: urglas n
• Thai: กระจกนาฬิกา (grà-jòk-naa-lí-gaa)

glass covering on watch

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錶面玻璃 / 表面玻璃 (biǎomiàn bōli)

• Dutch: horlogeglas n
• Finnish: kellonlasi, kellon lasi
• Romanian: geam (ro) n

hourglass — see hourglass

Further reading

• watch glass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia