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pipette

[pahy-pet, pi-]
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noun
  1. a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
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verb (used with object), pi·pet·ted, pi·pet·ting.
  1. to measure or transfer a quantity of a liquid with a pipette.
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Origin of pipette

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

  • 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.

  • The third of these weighings gave the mean weight of a pipette.

British Dictionary definitions for pipette

pipette

noun
  1. 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
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verb
  1. (tr) to transfer or measure out (a liquid) using a pipette
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Word Origin

C19: via French: little pipe, from pipe pipe 1
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Word Origin and History for pipette

n.

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

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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
pipette in Medicine

pipette

n.
  1. A narrow, usually calibrated glass tube into which small amounts of liquid are suctioned for transfer or measurement.
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pipette in Science

pipette

[pī-pĕt′]
  1. A graduated narrow glass tube, often with an enlarged bulb, used for transferring measured volumes of liquids.
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