bell glass

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   a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases

   Synonymsbell jar

   Broaderprotective covering

Questions about bell glass

What does bell glass mean?

bell glass means "a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases".

What is another word for bell glass?

Close synonyms include bell jar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bell glass a common word?

bell glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.