pipette
See also: Pipette
English
WOTD – 25 February 2012
Alternative forms
- pipet (US)
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)
- (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
small glass tube used for transferring liquid
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Verb
pipette (third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted)
- To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
- 2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, page 95:
- Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.
Related terms
- pipe (verb)
Translations
to transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipet
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
pipette c (singular definite pipetten, plural indefinite pipetter)
- a pipette
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pipette | pipetten | pipetter | pipetterne |
| genitive | pipettes | pipettens | pipetters | pipetternes |
References
- “pipette” in Den Danske Ordbog
pipette on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.pɛt/
Audio: (file)
Noun
pipette f (plural pipettes)
Descendants
- → Portuguese: pipeta
Further reading
- “pipette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
pipette f
- plural of pipetta
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)
- a pipette
References
- “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia no
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)
- a pipette
References
- “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.