watch glass

Questions about watch glass

What does watch glass mean?

watch glass means "laboratory glassware; a shallow glass dish used as an evaporating surface or to cover a beaker". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for watch glass?

Close synonyms include crystal, watch crystal. 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 watch glass a common word?

watch glass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.