laboratory
Americannoun
plural
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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.
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any place, situation, set of conditions, or the like, conducive to experimentation, investigation, observation, etc.; anything suggestive of a scientific laboratory.
adjective
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serving a function in a laboratory.
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relating to techniques of work in a laboratory.
laboratory methods; laboratory research.
noun
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a building or room equipped for conducting scientific research or for teaching practical science
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( as modifier )
laboratory equipment
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a place where chemicals or medicines are manufactured
Other Word Forms
- interlaboratory adjective
- laboratorial adjective
- laboratorially adverb
- laboratorian noun
Etymology
Origin of laboratory
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin labōrātōrium workshop, equivalent to Latin labōrā ( re ) to labor + -tōrium -tory 2
Example Sentences
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They published the test results carried out at laboratories in Italy and Switzerland.
From BBC
"By drying and heating the remaining material, we were able to measure the characteristic molecules of different types of plastics in the Utrecht laboratory, using mass spectrometry," Ten Hietbrink explains.
From Science Daily
Kelly saw it as his professional duty to do far more than what was expected, with his laboratory and vast resources, to create new technologies.
His entries read like a strange hybrid of laboratory report and poetic comparison.
Bedbrook and Nath will continue this work as they establish their own laboratories at Princeton University this July, building on the tools and insights developed at Stanford.
From Science Daily
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