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laboratory

[lab-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, lab-er-uh-; Brit. luh-bor-uh-tuh-ree, -uh-tree]

noun

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.

adjective

serving a function in a laboratory.

relating to techniques of work in a laboratory: laboratory methods; laboratory research.

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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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Origin:
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin labōrātōrium workshop, equivalent to Latin labōrā(re) to labor + -tōrium -tory²

Related forms

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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Responsible for general laboratory management, management of non-personnel budget.

Genetically manipulated plants are moving out of the laboratory and on to the supermarket shelf.

The vapor then sparks golf-ball-size orbs of ball lightning that bounce across the laboratory floor.

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Responsible for general laboratory management, management of non-personnel budget.

Genetically manipulated plants are moving out of the laboratory and on to the supermarket shelf.

The vapor then sparks golf-ball-size orbs of ball lightning that bounce across the laboratory floor.

Unoccupied in the winter, the center consists of seven laboratory igloos linked by corridors.

Straightaway, he ordered construction of a house and laboratory quarters.

Fill a few with dry ice to turn your house into a mad scientist's laboratory.

Conventional laboratory equipment is powerful but expensive.

Laboratory space and start up funds will be provided.

Europe's biggest particle-physics laboratory is half a century old this year.

Laboratory experiments showed capsaicinoids thwart the fungus invasion-but not the insects.

Soleri, as it happens, doesn't live in his laboratory.

He and his team tested a laboratory procedure for measuring the amount of benzoylecgonine in horse urine.

The fundamental contributions are made in the laboratory and the clinic.

The next question, then, is whether such a mechanism holds outside the laboratory.

Then, by building artificial clouds in laboratory chambers, the team determined that lead actually causes ice crystals to form.

Allman carefully sliced it using the laboratory equivalent of a deli meat cutter.

The vagaries of federal financing play havoc with laboratory projects and staffing.

Because of the small amount of evidence, the laboratory could not tell where the rogue rice had come from.

One rests somewhere along the shifting ocean floor, the other rests in a well-monitored laboratory tank.

There is, nevertheless, a suppressed air of excitement at the laboratory.

She served admirably for decades as a floating marine laboratory.

Scientists can use it both to deposit their laboratory riches and to make withdrawals.

First, the laboratory was limited to software research.

Laboratory scientists peer into microscopes to observe the behaviour of bugs.

Most laboratory animals are bred specifically for research.

In a laboratory simulation, atoms hopped from site to site, spurred by heat.

It won't be long before surgeons routinely install replacement body parts created in the laboratory.

Similar laboratory devices can cost thousands of dollars and be extremely bulky.

Chu is observing phenomena he never saw in the science laboratory.

Taleyarkhan's laboratory is buried deep within a squat, gray.

Read about a lotion that gives laboratory mice tans.

In addition, the core's extreme temperatures and pressures are hard to reproduce in a laboratory.

Now, as the old port sheds its seedy image, some view it as a laboratory of the.

They also closed his laboratory and confiscated his work.

Some professional scientists are drawing on laboratory experience and academic training to make cooking into a science project.

Despite years of stultifying laboratory research and endless grading of.

In these warm tropical waters, with a half dozen people inside, our small laboratory would rapidly become stifling.

Hwang¿s laboratory did not meet the highest standards of ethical.

Milton said his theory has yet to be tested in the laboratory.

Given the success in the laboratory of a one-in-five dilution, that does not sound an insuperable objection.

They conducted their experiment on laboratory colonies with two mother queens.

Kohl has helped many nontraditional students start new lives in the laboratory.

The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.

Take time to socialize with junior and senior colleagues at laboratory or department functions.

Novel laboratory approaches to the discovery of new viruses will emerge.

See what makes this archipelago of islands a living laboratory of exotic animal species.

The scientists confirmed that the mouse could sing and then bred it with laboratory house mice.

Successful candidate will teach lecture and laboratory courses in the full-year general chemistry sequence.

The resulting deeply purple fruit promoted longer lives when fed to laboratory mice.

The path from exciting basic laboratory discovery to valuable practical application for improving human health has many barriers.

Another novel scientific application of the web is as an experimental laboratory in its own right.

The cooked grains were gelatinous and matched the appearance of bean starch she had cooked in her laboratory for comparison.

Fieldwork brings with it many joys and challenges that differ from laboratory and library research.

Yet it is in many ways the perfect laboratory for testing economic theories about decision-making.

She kept that fact in mind when she negotiated for laboratory space and equipment for her.

About a third consisted of breeding animals for laboratory tests.

If you are setting up a laboratory and training a technician, you also might want to aim for a reduced load.

But some of the materials and catalysts have turned out to be unstable and inefficient in the laboratory.

Translate your laboratory skills and research interests into everyday language when possible.

In fact, they have an entire laboratory dedicated to the study of algae.

The faculty member works with two or three undergraduates and a laboratory scientist on a project of mutual interest.

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World English Dictionary

laboratory (ləˈbɒrətərɪ, -trɪ, US ˈlæbrəˌtɔːrɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	a. a building or room equipped for conducting scientific research or for teaching practical science
	b. (as modifier): laboratory equipment
2.	a place where chemicals or medicines are manufactured

[C17: from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium workshop, from Latin labōrāre to labour]

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Word Origin & History

laboratory

c.1600, "building set apart for scientific experiments," from M.L. laboratorium "a place for labor or work," from L. laboratus, pp. of laborare "to work" (see labor).

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Medical Dictionary

laboratory lab·o·ra·to·ry (lāb'rə-tôr'ē)
n.

A room or building equipped for scientific research.
A place where drugs and chemicals are manufactured.
A place for practice, observation, or testing.

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"In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary."

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