Laboratory
/ləˈbɒɹətɹi/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
- 2 a workplace for the conduct of scientific research wordnet
- 3 A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
"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."
- 4 a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation wordnet
Example
More examples"A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins."
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.