pipette

pipette

See also: Pipette

English

WOTD – 25 February 2012

Alternative forms

• pipet (US)

modern pipettes

traditional pipette

Etymology

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

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.]

Translations

small glass tube used for transferring liquid

Armenian: կաթոցիչ (hy) (katʿocʿičʿ) Bulgarian: пипета (bg) f (pipeta) Catalan: pipeta Chinese: Mandarin: 吸管 (zh) (xīguǎn), 吸量管 (zh) (xīliàngguǎn), 移液管 (zh) (yíyèguǎn), 移液器 (yíyèqì) Czech: pipeta f Dutch: pipet (nl) f or n Finnish: pipetti (fi) French: pipette (fr) f German: Pipette (de) f Hindi: विंदुक (vinduk) Hungarian: pipetta (hu) Icelandic: pípetta f Italian: pipetta (it) f Japanese: ピペット (pipetto) Korean: 피펫 (pipet) Norwegian: Bokmål: pipette m Nynorsk: pipette m Polish: pipeta (pl) f Portuguese: pipeta f Russian: пипе́тка (ru) f (pipétka) Spanish: pipeta (es) f Swedish: pipett (sv) c Tagalog: pipeta Welsh: piped f

Verb

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.

Translations

to transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipet

Dutch: pipetteren (nl) Finnish: pipetoida (fi) German: pipettieren (de) Portuguese: pipetar Welsh: pipedu

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French

Etymology

From pipe +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.pɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pipette f (plural pipettes)

1. (sciences) pipette

Descendants

• → Portuguese: pipeta

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

pipette f

1. plural of pipetta

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French pipette.

Noun

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

1. a pipette

References

• “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^no

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French pipette.

Noun

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

1. a pipette

References

• “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.