noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
2. 2
   measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

   "Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials."

Synonyms

All synonyms

adjutageapparatusaspiratorbleedbroachcatheter

Example

More examples

"Who broke thirteen test tubes, three volumetric flasks and a pipette in the laboratory?"

Etymology

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

Related phrases

Mohr pipettePasteur pipetteabsorption pipette

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