noun
- a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
- contents of a beaker: consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.
- a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.
adjective
- (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Beaker folk.
noun
- a cup usually having a wide moutha plastic beaker
- a cylindrical flat-bottomed container used in laboratories, usually made of glass and having a pouring lip
- the amount a beaker holds
“open large-mouthed vessel,” mid-14c., from Old Norse bikarr or Middle Dutch beker “goblet,” probably (with Old Saxon bikeri, Old High German behhari, German Becher) from Medieval Latin bicarium, which itself is probably a diminutive of Greek bikos “earthenware jug, wine jar” (said to be an oriental word, perhaps a borrowing from Syrian buqa “a two-handed vase or jug”). Form assimilated in English to beak.
- A wide, cylindrical glass container with a pouring lip, used especially in laboratories.