: suitable (as in size or configuration) for convenient use on a laboratory workbench
a benchtop centrifuge
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Recent Examples on the WebThe test requires a blood sample from the patient which is then processed in a benchtop instrument designed by the company to sit in hospitals’ clinical laboratories. David Prosser, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021 Bose, meanwhile, is interested in using such systems as benchtop detectors of gravitational waves, which so far have only been seen with the aid of immense detectors several kilometers in size.Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021