pipette

[pahy-pet, pi-]

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noun

a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.

verb (used with object), pi·pet·ted, pi·pet·ting.

to measure or transfer a quantity of a liquid with a pipette.

Origin of pipette

From French, dating back to 1830–40; see origin at pipe¹, -ette

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Related Words for pipette

pipe, duct, cylinder, tunnel, pipeline, conduit, chute, straw, subway, pipette, cannula

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Historical Examples of pipette

Put one end of the pipette into the milk sample and the other end into the mouth.
Agriculture for Beginners
Charles William Burkett
A pipette or slender-spouted vessel may be used to add the water.
The Book of Cheese
Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
To obtain an accurate reading, the pipette should be on a level with the eye.
The Book of Cheese
Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
It is by this pipe that the air is sucked into the pipette, when it is to be filled from its beak.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure
The third of these weighings gave the mean weight of a pipette.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure

British Dictionary definitions for pipette

pipette

noun

a calibrated glass tube drawn to a fine bore at one end, filled by sucking liquid into the bulb, and used to transfer or measure known volumes of liquid

verb

(tr) to transfer or measure out (a liquid) using a pipette

Word Origin for pipette

C19: via French: little pipe, from pipe pipe 1

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Word Origin and History for pipette

also pipet, 1818, from French pipette, from Middle French pipette "tube," diminutive of Old French pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (see pipe (n.1)).

pipette in Medicine