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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small thin piece of glass used to cover a specimen on a microscope slide.
  • noun A protective sheet of glass for a transparency.

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  • noun a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide

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