pipette

See also: Pipette

English

WOTD – 25 February 2012

Alternative forms

modern pipettes
traditional pipette

Etymology

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈpɛt/
  • (US) enPR: pī.pĕtʹ, IPA(key): /paɪˈpɛt/
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Noun

pipette (plural pipettes)

  1. (sciences) 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. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Verb

pipette (third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted)

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

Translations


French

Etymology

From pipe + -ette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pipɛt/

Noun

pipette f (plural pipettes)

  1. (sciences) pipette

Further reading


Italian

Noun

pipette f

  1. plural of pipetta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French pipette

Noun

pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)

  1. a pipette

References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French pipette

Noun

pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)

  1. a pipette

References

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