burette

See also: Bürette

English

a burette

Alternative forms

• buret

Etymology

Borrowed from French burette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bjʊəˈɹɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bjʊˈɹɛt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

burette (plural burettes)

1. (chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.

   Coordinate term: pipette

2. (religion) An altar cruet.

Translations

glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock used for titration, etc.

• Arabic: سَحَّاحَة f (saḥḥāḥa)
• Bulgarian: бюре́та f (bjuréta)
• Catalan: bureta f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滴定管 (dik⁶ ding⁶ gun²)

  Mandarin: 滴定管 (zh) (dīdìngguǎn)

• Czech: byreta f
• Danish: burette c
• Dutch: buret (nl) m or f
• Finnish: byretti (fi)
• French: burette (fr) f
• German: Bürette (de) f
• Greek: προχοΐδα (el) f (prochoḯda)
• Icelandic: búretta f
• Indonesian: buret (id)
• Italian: buretta (it) f
• Japanese: ビュレット (ja) (byuretto)
• Malay: buret (ms)
• Maori: ngōine, ngōine katirere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: byrette m

  Nynorsk: byrette m

• Polish: biureta (pl) f
• Portuguese: bureta (pt) f
• Russian: бюре́тка (ru) f (bjurétka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бирѐта f

  Roman: birèta (sh) f

French

Etymology

From buire +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛt/

Noun

burette f (plural burettes)

1. oilcan
2. (chemistry) burette
3. (religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist

Descendants

• → Portuguese: bureta

Further reading

• “burette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

burette f

1. plural of buretta