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laboratory
noun
Harwell Laboratory
language laboratory
noun
the Cavendish Laboratory
fieldwork
noun
pipette
noun
field
noun
retort
noun
paraclinical
adjective
skunkworks
noun
John Cockroft
J J Thomson
Francis Crick
Los Alamos
Cambridge University
Ernest Rutherford
Definition of
laboratory noun
from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
laboratory
noun
ləˈbɒrətri
ˈlæbrətɔːri
plural
laboratories
(
also
informal
lab
)
a room or building used for scientific research, experiments, testing, etc
a research laboratory
laboratory experiments/tests
to send a specimen to the laboratory for analysis
see also
language laboratory