beaker

[ bee-ker ]
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noun
  1. a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.

  2. contents of a beaker: consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.

  1. a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.

adjective
  1. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Beaker folk.

Origin of beaker

1
First recorded in 1300–50; alteration of Middle English biker, from Old Norse bikarr, from Old Saxon bikeri (compare Old High German bechari, German Becher, Dutch beker ), from unattested Latin bic(c)arium, -ius, of uncertain origin. See pitcher1

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British Dictionary definitions for beaker

beaker

/ (ˈbiːkə) /


noun
  1. a cup usually having a wide mouth: a plastic beaker

  2. a cylindrical flat-bottomed container used in laboratories, usually made of glass and having a pouring lip

  1. the amount a beaker holds

Origin of beaker

1
C14: from Old Norse bikarr; related to Old High German behhāri, Middle Dutch bēker beaker, Greek bikos earthenware jug

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Scientific definitions for beaker

beaker

[ kər ]


  1. A wide, cylindrical glass container with a pouring lip, used especially in laboratories.

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