micropipette

American  

[mahy-kroh-pahy-pet, -pi-] / ˌmaɪ kroʊ paɪˈpɛt, -pɪ- /

Or micropipet

noun

1. a very slender pipette for transferring or measuring minute amounts of fluid, microorganisms, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of micropipette

First recorded in 1915–20; micro- + pipette

Example Sentences

Backholm adapted a unique micropipette measurement technique to gauge the forces acting against the water droplets.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

She stabbed the micropipette into the patch, stimulated it, and could hardly believe what she was seeing through her microscope.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2019

He went on Paxil twenty-one years ago, for social anxiety, and has tried to go off several times, using a micropipette to measure a small reduction of the liquid form of the medication each month.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

Barry reminds her of John, in the way that he’ll quote Shakespeare while holding the micropipette close to his gels.

From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2011

Using microscopes and a micropipette much finer than a human hair, they sucked out the cells' nuclei and, one by one, transplanted each into a recently fertilized egg extracted from another mouse.

From Time Magazine Archive