pipette
Other forms: pipettes
One of the tools in a chemistry lab is a pipette, a glass tube used to move liquids. If you were examining a chemical under your microscope, you'd use a pipette to put a drop on your slide.
Some pipettes are used for measuring small amounts of liquid, but the most common use is transporting them from one place to another. When you squeeze a small bulb attached to the pipette, the vacuum you've created sucks fluid up into the slender glass instrument. Think of an eye dropper, the most commonly-used type of pipette. The word comes from Middle French, in which it means "tube."
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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 tubesynonyms: pipettypes:dropper, eye dropperpipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a timetype of:measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring systeminstrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something
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Vocabulary lists containing pipette
A borrowing from Middle French, -ette is a diminutive suffix. There are two widely used senses of this suffix: the first denotes the smallness of an object and the second refers to a woman carrying out the role of the root word.
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