See also: Pipette

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modern pipettes
 
traditional pipette

Etymology

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From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

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Noun

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pipette (plural pipettes)

  1. (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.]

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pipette (third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted)

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

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French

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Etymology

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From pipe +‎ -ette.

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Noun

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pipette f (plural pipettes)

  1. (sciences) pipette

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  • Portuguese: pipeta

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Italian

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Noun

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pipette f

  1. plural of pipetta

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French pipette.

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pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)

  1. a pipette

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  pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia no

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From French pipette.

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pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)

  1. a pipette

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