Etymology

pipette

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

First used 19th c.French pipette
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  1. Frenchpipe
  2. Frenchpipette
  3. English todaypipette

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette. By surface analysis, pipe + -ette.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th c. 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.

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