casset

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noun

Dated spelling of cassette.

Scrabble 8

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nouncasset (plural cassets)

plural cassets

  1. Dated spelling of cassette.

    With this arrangement it is possible to take a film with a radiographic tube 36 in. above the casset.

    1948, The Year Book of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Volume 1948, Year Book Publishers, page 468
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    The films were enclosed in a casset, having superspeed intensifying screens. When loaded, the casset was placed in an open-face lead-lined box and securely fastened, face down, over the seam to be radiographed.

    1940, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Norris Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Tennessee Valley Authority's First Water Control Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 432

    A lead strip graduated in cm, and in 2 mm intervals in the mid-portion was fixed to the casset holder approximately 1 1/2" from it.

    1958, Robert Hansen, Douglas Y. Cornog, Annotated Bibliography of Applied Physical Anthropology in Human Engineering, Aero Medical Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, page 81

    a casset table which is fixed to a table and sets a casset-set having upper and lower plates to clamp a workpiece

    1987, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, Volume 1076, Issue 2, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 713

    Place the blot in a film casset (Kodak or DuPont Cronex) and expose the membrane to Kodak XAR-5 X-ray film for 2-3 d at -70°C between intensifying screens (DuPont Cronex Lightning Plus). Combining Kodak T-MATH film with Kodak Lannex Fast screens will yield comparable results overnight (see Note 9).

    2008 [1991], Gene Transfer and Expression Protocols, Humana Press, page 392

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