English edit

Etymology edit

From micro- +‎ centrifuge.

Noun edit

microcentrifuge (plural microcentrifuges)

  1. A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).

Verb edit

microcentrifuge (third-person singular simple present microcentrifuges, present participle microcentrifuging, simple past and past participle microcentrifuged)

  1. (transitive) To centrifuge in such a device.
    • 2016 February 4, “Use of De Novo Transcriptome Libraries to Characterize a Novel Oleaginous Marine Chlorella Species during the Accumulation of Triacylglycerols”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Cell suspensions in RNAlater were microcentrifuged for one minute at 20,000 × g, and the pellets were re-suspended in the kit-provided buffer RLT.