Usually means: Container for heating substances to extremes.
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  1. crucible: Merriam-Webster
  2. crucible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crucible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crucible, the Crucible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crucible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crucible, crucible: Wordnik
  7. crucible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crucible: Wiktionary
  9. crucible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crucible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crucible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crucible: Dictionary.com
  13. crucible: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Crucible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. crucible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. crucible: Rhymezone
  18. Crucible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. crucible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. crucible: FreeDictionary.org
  21. crucible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. crucible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. crucible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crucible: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. crucible: Encyclopedia

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  1. crucible: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. crucible: Medical dictionary

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  1. Crucible, The Crucible: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chemistry) A cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
noun:  A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 500°C, commonly made of graphite with clay as a binder.
noun:  The bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace; the hearth.
noun:  (figuratively) A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.

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