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pipette
[ pahy-pet, pi- ]
noun
- a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
verb (used with object)
- to measure or transfer a quantity of a liquid with a pipette.
pipette
/ pɪˈpɛt /
noun
- a calibrated glass tube drawn to a fine bore at one end, filled by sucking liquid into the bulb, and used to transfer or measure known volumes of liquid
verb
- tr to transfer or measure out (a liquid) using a pipette
pipette
/ pī-pĕt′ /
- A graduated narrow glass tube, often with an enlarged bulb, used for transferring measured volumes of liquids.
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Origin of pipette1
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Example Sentences
The only problem is that they don’t have enough pipette tips due to a national shortage.
Take a sterile capillary pipette (Fig. 13, c); break off the sealed extremity with a pair of sterile forceps.
With another pipette run in an equal quantity of the caustic soda solution.
(c) Bent syphon tube, with pipette nozzle attached by means of rubber tubing and fitted with pinch-cock.
Transfer the washed cells to a sterile capsule by means of a sterile pipette.
Open the thorax with all aseptic precautions, and collect as much blood as possible from the heart with a sterile Pasteur pipette.
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