pipette

See also: Pipette

English

WOTD – 25 February 2012

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈpɛt/
  • (US) enPR: pī-pĕtʹ, IPA(key): /paɪˈpɛt/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

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.]
    Coordinate term: burette

Derived terms

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

Danish

Etymology

From French pipette.

Noun

pipette c (singular definite pipetten, plural indefinite pipetter)

  1. a pipette

Declension

Declension of pipette
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pipette pipetten pipetter pipetterne
genitive pipettes pipettens pipetters pipetternes

References

pipette on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

French

Etymology

From pipe +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.pɛt/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

pipette f (plural pipettes)

  1. (sciences) pipette

Descendants

  • Portuguese: pipeta

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

pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia no

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French pipette.

Noun

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

  1. a pipette

References