pipette

modern pipettes

Meanings

Noun

  • 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.

Verb

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

Origin

  • From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

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