laboratory
a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
any place, situation, set of conditions, or the like, conducive to experimentation, investigation, observation, etc.; anything suggestive of a scientific laboratory.
serving a function in a laboratory.
relating to techniques of work in a laboratory: laboratory methods; laboratory research.
Origin of laboratory
1Other words from laboratory
- lab·o·ra·to·ri·al, adjective
- lab·o·ra·to·ri·al·ly, adverb
- lab·o·ra·to·ri·an, noun
- in·ter·lab·o·ra·to·ry, adjective
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How to use laboratory in a sentence
Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.
They were then shipped to Archive laboratories in Maryland where mold was removed and rips mended.
CNBC first reported the involvement of Sandia National Laboratories in that security overhaul.
It even happens in artificial markets, in the laboratories of experimental economists.
Engineers now field questions on Reddit and laboratories raffle off multiday tours to Twitter followers.
Then they all had coffee and cake, shook hands with Pete Senior, and went to their homes and laboratories.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyEvery Friday afternoon thereafter I went out to the laboratories to see how things were coming along.
The Professional Approach | Charles Leonard HarnessIndeed these inventions of his are still used in laboratories for demonstration purposes.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshDeserts are natural laboratories in which to study the interactions of wind and sometimes water on the arid surfaces of planets.
Deserts | A. S. WalkerThe biologist is supplied with laboratories at home and abroad, where he may study his science under the best conditions.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology | J. E. Marr
British Dictionary definitions for laboratory
/ (ləˈbɒrətərɪ, -trɪ, US ˈlæbrəˌtɔːrɪ) /
a building or room equipped for conducting scientific research or for teaching practical science
(as modifier): laboratory equipment
a place where chemicals or medicines are manufactured
Origin of laboratory
1- Often shortened to: lab
- See also language laboratory
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