burette
noun/bjʊəˈret/
/bjʊˈret/
(US English also buret)
- a glass tube with measurements on it and a tap at one end, used, for example, in chemical experiments for measuring out amounts of a liquidWord Originmid 19th cent.: from French, from buire ‘jug’, of Germanic origin; related to German Bauch ‘stomach’.
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