pipette

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  1. noun A narrow, usually calibrated glass tube into which small amounts of liquid are suctioned for transfer or measurement.

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  • Careful not to let any touch her skin or clothes, Katerina drew up several milliliters of fluid from the pool into the pipette, then she emptied it into a vial. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • The fact it hadn't melted the glass pipette or plastic vial was an encouraging but inconclusive indication it wasn't too corrosive. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • Their ear for listening into the conversations of neurons and other cells was a glass pipette, which can be as small as 1/25,000 the diameter of a human hair. —  Omni: December 1993
  • Conventional electrodes destroy the patch and the membrane as the pipette moves back and forth. —  Omni: December 1993
  • So put down that pipette, honey, I got something that will set you free —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. French, from Old French, tube, diminutive of pipe, pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pīpa; see pipe.

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  1. from French pipette, diminutive of pipe, a pipe: see pipe.
  2. from pipette, n.
 

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