Crossword clues for pipette
pipette
- Lab tube
- Lab measurer
- 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 tube
- Chemist's small container
- Tube in a lab
- Chemist's measurer
- Tube ending in passage alongside canary, say, in mine
- Tube for liquid in mine covering domestic source of electricity
- Thin lab tube
- Glass tube used in chemistry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipette \Pi*pette"\, n. [F., dim. of pipe.] A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pipet, 1818, from French pipette, from Middle French pipette "tube," diminutive of Old French pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (see pipe (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. (context sciences English) A small glass 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.) vb. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
WordNet
n. 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 tube [syn: pipet]
Wikipedia
A pipette (sometimes spelled pipet) is a laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry, biology and medicine to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser. Pipettes come in several designs for various purposes with differing levels of accuracy and precision, from single piece glass pipettes to more complex adjustable or electronic pipettes. Many pipette types work by creating a partial vacuum above the liquid-holding chamber and selectively releasing this vacuum to draw up and dispense liquid. Measurement accuracy varies greatly depending on the style.
Usage examples of "pipette".
Glass jars, slender glass tubes called pipettes, racks of glass slides and covers, bottles of hematoxylin and eosin dyes, and plastic baskets containing thousands of Eppendorf tubes, from 0.
Lars recognized the ultracentrifuge blocked in against the bulkhead, saw the tiers of incubators, the agitators and water-baths, the cartons of pipettes and reagents still unopened, but secured tightly for blastoff.
Glass jars, slender glass tubes called pipettes, racks of glass slides and covers, bottles of hematoxylin and eosin dyes, and plastic baskets containing thousands of Eppendorf tubes, from 0.
For a while, Penn Brown concentrates on using his pipette to spot microliter droplets into the wells.
By then your father had been pipetted out and installed in an incubation tank.
Jeff, usually one of loudest talkers, was quietly pipetting samples into petri dishes.
Inside the labs, Humans wearing white overalls over their clean-suits wielded pipettes and needles over glass eggs of culture media, filter dishes of layered ceramics, and even old-fashioned microscopes they must have appropriated from the larger hospital.
Spare test tubes, beakers, and pipettes were stacked neatly in open shelves above the counters, while a shining steel stool gave Kaur someplace to rest her legs while she inspected the embryos.
It has also been reported that Martians drink blood, and that they used pipettes about a yard long to do so.
From other accounts, one might suppose that such pipettes were metallic things that the Martians kept lying about near their vehicles, but this is not so.
I stirred with black pipettes, and I forgot from moment to moment what it was I had been looking for.
These are bunsen burners, this is a test-tube, this is a pipette, that's a burette, that is a retort, a crucible .
Glass is used extensively in the bottles, graduated cylinders, beakers, flasks, pipettes, condensers, test tubes, watch glasses, burets, funnels, crucibles, and retorts of modern chemical laboratories.
He remembered chemistry lab in college, where he'd been required to fashion pipettes using a Bunsen burner and glass rods.
When I walked in, he was making a permanent slide, using a pipette to touch a drop of Cargille melt mount on the edge of a cover slip while other slides warned up on a hot plate.