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laboratory

  • noun
  • lab·or·a·to·ry
  • /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

Other meanings

  1. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.

Synonyms

  • lab
  • research lab
  • research laboratory
  • science lab
  • science laboratory

A kind of

  • workplace

Kinds of laboratory

  • biology lab
  • chemistry lab
  • defense laboratory
  • physics lab

Related words

  • biolaboratory
  • collaboratory
  • interlaboratory
  • intralaboratory
  • laboratorian
  • laboratorily
  • laboratorist
  • laboratoryful
  • laboratoryware
  • multilaboratory
  • nonlaboratory
  • hot laboratory

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “laboratory” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.