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laboratory

noun
/ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/UK/ləˈbɔɹətɹe//ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/US/ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.

  1. borrowed from labōrātōrium

Definitions

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

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

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

    • [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

The neighborhood

Derived

biolaboratory, collaboratory, hot laboratory, interlaboratory, intralaboratory, laboratorian, laboratorily, laboratorist, laboratory assistant, laboratory coat, laboratoryful, laboratory mouse, laboratory rat, laboratoryware, language laboratory, multilaboratory, nonlaboratory

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for laboratory. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA