pipette
See also: Pipette
English
Alternative forms
- pipet (US)
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pipette (plural pipettes)
- (sciences) A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. [from 19th c.]
Translations
small glass tube used for transferring liquid
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Verb
pipette (third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted)
- To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
Translations
to transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipet
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pipette f (plural pipettes)
Further reading
- “pipette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
pipette f
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)
- a pipette
References
- “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)
- a pipette
References
- “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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