Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow, usually calibrated tube into which small amounts of liquid are suctioned for transfer or measurement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A funnel-shaped attachment, with the small end downward, midway in a barometer, to act as a trap to prevent air-bubbles from rising to the top.
- To take up or transfer by means of a pipette.
- noun In porcelain-making, a small can arranged to hold slip, and to allow it to flow through a pipe at one end. Pipettes are sometimes fitted with adjustable pipes of different diameters. See
slip-decoration . - noun A small tube used to withdraw and transfer fluids or gases from one vessel to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The interior of the pipette is connected to an electronic amplifier.
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"This is my composition; the pipette is my clarinet".
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A small glass instrument, called a pipette, comes with each machine.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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The Drink Detective comes with three test strips and a pipette, which is like a tiny eye dropper.
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The Drink Detective comes with three test strips and a pipette, which is like a tiny eye dropper.
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Snap off the remainder of the capillary tube from the broad upper portion of the pipette which is now destined to form the covering tube or air chamber, or what we may term the "barrel."
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[12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Preparation of solutions, buffers used in electrophysiology lab and routine duties (such as pipette calibration, filling of nitrogen dewer).
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For Eppendorf's stab at the boy band, pipette-appeal genre, see the video here.
Science Maxine 2009
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'In a dreary, lonely lab a young female postdoc puts down her pipette to massage her aching latexed hands.
Science Maxine 2009
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