pipette

• pipet (US)

modern pipettes

traditional pipette

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈpɛt/
• (US) enPR: pī-pĕtʹ, IPA^(key): /paɪˈpɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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.]

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.
   • 2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, page 95:

     Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.

From pipe +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /pi.pɛt/

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pipette f (plural pipettes)

1. (sciences) pipette

• → Portuguese: pipeta

• “pipette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pipette f

1. plural of pipetta

From French pipette.

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

1. a pipette

• “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^no

From French pipette.

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

1. a pipette

• “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.