Beakers Definition & Meaning

Examples of beaker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With careful attention to detail, the team had to replace every beaker, tub of methylamine, round-bottom flask and more. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022 Plus the beaker-like vessel is adorable for flowers. — Jeanne O'brien Coffey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021 The hands-on kit comes with a beaker, a flask, three test tubes, goggles, a ruler, an eye dropper, a funnel, a measuring spoon and a real working scale, plus stickers and experiment cards. — Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2022 Noodle stiction occurs as linear stage moves down the beaker. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022 Compared with males who were still enjoying time with their mate, the partner-separated voles spent less time flailing and fighting their way out of the swim beaker and the black box. — Florence Williams, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022 The podcast’s cover image — Civeris and Taggart voguing inside a giant beaker — gives the impression that its hosts apply the scientific method to all things straight. — Alex Mcelroy, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021 What appears to be a specimen lung — or, some suggest, a dissolving skull — floats in the beaker’s light-diffusing liquid. — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021 Two electric wires placed in a beaker of water gives you oxygen and hydrogen, with little bubbles of the two gasses drifting off the positive and negative electrodes respectively. — Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for beaker

Middle English biker, borrowed from Old Norse bikarr, probably borrowed from a continental Germanic form akin to Old Saxon bikeri, borrowed from early Medieval Latin bicarium, variant of bacarium — more at basin

Note: As noted by the Middle English Dictionary, the modern English form probably reflects influence of Middle Dutch beker.

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