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 (General Australian):

  (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.]

   Coordinate term: burette

Derived terms

• absorption pipette
• Mohr pipette
• Pasteur pipette

 

Translations

small glass tube used for transferring liquid

• Armenian: կաթոցիչ (hy) (katʻocʻičʻ)
• Bulgarian: пипета (bg) f (pipeta)
• Catalan: pipeta (ca)
• 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)
• Maori: ngoine
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pipette (no) 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

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.

Italian

Noun

pipette f

1. plural of pipetta

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

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.