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bell jar

noun

  1. a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.


bell jar

noun

  1. a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect flower arrangements or fragile ornaments or to cover apparatus in experiments, esp to prevent gases escaping
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bell jar1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

However, as she feared, The Bell Jar appeared to indifferent notices and the launch—which Ted attended—was rather low-key.

He was too busy watching something inside the bell jar even to notice that they existed.

Sounds continue to come from an alarm clock even though it is placed under a bell jar.

A three-way tap is let horizontally into the vertical tube just above its junction with the bell jar.

In the very middle of the bell-jar of visibility granted them all at once, stood a black rectangular object.

A glass tube brings it into communication with a bell jar full of water on the shelf of the pneumatic trough.

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