pipette
pronunciation
How to pronounce pipette in British English:
UK [pɪˈpet]
How to pronounce pipette in American English:
US [paɪˈpet]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- pipette (n.)
- also pipet, 1818, from French pipette, from Middle French pipette "tube," diminutive of Old French pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (see pipe (n.1)).
Example
- 1. Carefully tighten the clamp until it firmly supports the pipette in a vertical position .
- 2. I use only a little aquarium and a pipette to make such shots .
- 3. The pipette is washed three times with the internal standard solution . With a10-m l hamilton syringe , 0.5m l of " known " and " unknown " are injected in duplicate , and the alcohol and isobutanol peak heights are measured for each .