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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
burette
 
SYLLABICATION:bu·rette
PRONUNCIATION:  by-rt
VARIANT FORMS: also bu·ret
NOUN: A uniform-bore glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used especially in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and measurement.
ETYMOLOGY:French, diminutive of buire, vase for liquors, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.
 
 
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