pipette
noun
a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
pipettes
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present tense formof pipette (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Tiny glass pipettes were used to fill the champagne bottles - but the bubbles had to be removed to make this possible.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
The fragmented and siloed world of laboratory science became the crux of the crisis; the fate of millions rested upon hand pipettes and fax machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
When squeezed in front of the eye, lemon peel produced tears on demand, which were collected in glass pipettes and placed into tubes for study.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2021
There is a delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
Dozens of people in crisp white lab coats with a silver MT logo were working at stations with microscopes, remotely manipulating machines inside glass cubes, using pipettes, typing into computers...all of them busy and focused.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
