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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enclosed workspace equipped with gloved openings that allow manipulation in the interior, designed to prevent contamination of the product, the environment, or the worker.
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- noun automotive A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a
car , usually on passenger side, to store (and sometime lock) items. - noun A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an
isolator .
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hernesheir commented on the word glove box
A wooden box nailed to the side of the corn wagon used to hold spare pairs of shucking gloves. My father's term (along with jockey-box) for the glove compartment of modern automobiles.
February 12, 2010