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plural pipettes
(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. examples
third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted
To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. quotations examples
Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.
2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, page 95