Usually means: Heat-resistant glass for cooking, laboratory.
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  1. pyrex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pyrex: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pyrex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pyrex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pyrex: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pyrex: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pyrex, pyrex: Wordnik
  8. Pyrex, pyrex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pyrex, pyrex: Wiktionary
  10. Pyrex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Pyrex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Pyrex: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pyrex, pyrex: Dictionary.com
  14. Pyrex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pyrex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pyrex (programming language), Pyrex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pyrex: Rhymezone
  18. pyrex: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pyrex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Pyrex: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pyrex: Encyclopedia

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  1. Pyrex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. PYREX: Acronym Finder

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  1. pyrex: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pyrex)

noun:  A brand of glassware produced by the Corning corporation, capable of resisting high temperatures, and suitable for cooking applications, currently made with tempered glass.
noun:  (historical) A brand of glassware produced by Corning using borosilicate glass.
noun:  A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
noun:  (by extension) Any borosilicate glass.
noun:  (by extension) Any glass capable of withstanding high temperatures, such as tempered glass suitable for cooking.
noun:  Alternative form of pyrex [A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.]

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