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
Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
