pipette
noun
a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
pipetting
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present participleof pipette.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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She said she worked for hours, painstakingly pipetting drops of the samples into tiny glass wells as part of the testing process, which extracts genetic material in order to detect the presence of the virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024
For decades, the fundamental labor unit of biological research has been the lowly grad student, who toils away pipetting liquids, taking measurements, looking through results and, if lucky, maybe running a few experiments a month.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
This weekend, it’s offering a biohacker boot camp, pipetting and all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
To keep the process going, Kenny would drive to his darkened laboratory at odd hours of the night, carefully pipetting samples onto sequencing chips while the world around him slept.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
Mary didn’t realize until months later that he’d been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they’d stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
