burette

burette

See also: Bürette

English

a burette

Alternative forms

• buret

Etymology

Borrowed from French burette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bjʊəˈɹet/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bjʊˈɹet/

Noun

burette (plural burettes)

1. (chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.
2. (religion) An altar cruet.

Translations

glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock used for titration, etc.

Arabic: سَحَّاحَة‎ f (saḥḥāḥa) Bulgarian: бюре́та f (bjuréta) Catalan: bureta f Chinese: Cantonese: 滴定管 (dik6 ding6 gun2) Mandarin: 滴定管 (zh) (dīdìngguǎn) Czech: byreta f Danish: burette c Dutch: buret (nl) m or f Finnish: byretti (fi) French: burette (fr) f German: Bürette (de) f Greek: προχοΐδα (el) f (prochoḯda) Icelandic: búretta f Indonesian: buret (id) Italian: buretta (it) f Japanese: ビュレット (byuretto) Malay: buret (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: byrette m Nynorsk: byrette m Polish: biureta f Portuguese: bureta (pt) f Russian: бюре́тка (ru) f (bjurétka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бирѐта f Roman: birèta (sh) f

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French

Etymology

From buire +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛt/

Noun

burette f (plural burettes)

1. oilcan
2. (chemistry) burette
3. (religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist

Descendants

• → Portuguese: bureta

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

burette f

1. plural of buretta