beaker
noun
a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
beakers
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pluralof beaker.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Its lab, with a row of bikes parked inside the front door, hums quietly with workers in protective gear moving between beakers, kilns and mineral samples being tested for durability and composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Early on, the videos fall into the realm of hobbyist experiments: He exploded a small hydrogen balloon; he concocted glass beakers of acids.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
The researchers collected seeds and placed them onto special brown paper, which was then rolled into a cigar shape and stored upright in narrow glass beakers.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
They also delivered more than two times the venom by weight into the beakers, even though they were on average about 21% smaller than the mainland snakes.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
There were beakers and bottles and test tubes everywhere.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
