laboratory
noun /ləˈbɒrətri/
/ˈlæbrətɔːri/
(plural laboratories)
(also informal lab)
- a room or building used for scientific research, experiments, testing, etc.
enlarge image- a clinical/research laboratory
- to send a specimen to the laboratory for analysis
- in a/the laboratory The effects of weathering can be simulated in the laboratory.
- laboratory experiments/tests
- The athletes' reflexes were tested under laboratory conditions.
Wordfindersee also language laboratory- analysis
- evaluate
- evidence
- experiment
- hypothesis
- laboratory
- research
- result
- science
- study
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb1, Scientific researchb1- She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.
- They work in a laboratory studying growth patterns.
- laboratory tests on animals
- simulated driving in a laboratory setting
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- commercial
- industrial
- school
- …
- assistant
- scientist
- technician
- …
- in a/the laboratory
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labour’.
