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
The federal government and corporations such as LabCorp had failed to scale up COVID-19 testing, which often involved a tedious liquid transfer process called pipetting.
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
The scientists also built a robotic system to analyze the samples quickly; the old way, pipetting by hand, required several days to analyze only a fraction as many samples.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
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
