lab

¹ American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. laboratory.

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Lab ² American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. Informal. Labrador retriever.

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LAB ³ American  

Or lab

abbreviation

Slang.

1. life’s a bitch (used to acknowledge, often dismissively, a difficult or unfair circumstance).

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lab. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. labor.

2. laboratory.

3. laborer.

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Lab. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Laborite.

2. Labrador.

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Lab. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. politics Labour

2. Labrador

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lab ² British  

/ læb /

noun

1. short for laboratory

2. short for Labrador retriever

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lab. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. laboratory

2. labour

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Etymology

Origin of lab¹

By shortening

Origin of Lab²

By shortening

Origin of LAB³

From its use in digital communications

Example Sentences

To date, CoreWeave has secured a foothold in the market by rapidly providing the latest Nvidia architecture at a time when AI labs need as much capacity as they can get.

From Barron's

The research lab was already known to Silicon Valley cognoscenti for having invented a personal computer called the Alto and the precursor to the Ethernet networking system.

From Los Angeles Times

This method delivers low optical loss, stable performance, and compatibility with existing fiber-optic systems, all of which are important for moving quantum technologies beyond lab experiments.

From Science Daily

Evangelista explains that chloramphenicol and enrofloxacin were selected for detailed lab experiments because of their importance to both environmental and human health.

From Science Daily

To overcome this, the researchers isolated, cloned, and grew tumor cells in the lab.

From Science Daily

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