Labful

She gestured at the labful of obsolete equipment we'd gotten when one of the local universities had built a new science building and tossed all their outdated equipment.

It's more than likely she became a scientist to organize a labful of people and equipment.

Doc's name then was something like Xqq, and because of the two suns and the way they rose and set, he worked some very complicated shifts, cleaning up after a labful of scientist-priests who invented things in a gigantic facility which had formerly been a mountain of pure osmium.