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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- pipet (US)
Etymology[edit]
From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
small glass tube used for transferring liquid
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Verb[edit]
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.
- 2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, page 95:
- Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.
Translations[edit]
to transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipet
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pipette f (plural pipettes)
Descendants[edit]
- → Portuguese: pipeta
Further reading[edit]
- “pipette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
pipette f
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)
- a pipette
References[edit]
- “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)
- a pipette
References[edit]
- “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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