Laboratory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Laboratory is a noun meaning A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
Meaning
A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
More Meanings
- A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
Example Sentences
[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.
Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.
Word Forms
- laboratories
Synonyms for laboratory
Depending on context, synonyms include lab, laboratorium.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lab, laboratorium, workshop, classroom, printing, analysis.
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