laboratory

Definition

  • noun: a room or building with special equipment for doing scientific experiments and tests
  • noun: a place equipped for experimental study in a science or for testing and analysis
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: work place, elaboratory

Examples

  • experiments conducted in a modern 'laboratory'

  • a research 'laboratory'

Movie quotes

  • (..) to tell me about it, okay? Not sure if I'll have time, but you can read about it in Look, I just want to say, no hard feelings, okay? About the laboratory moving and expansion thing. So I'm actually looking for my own building anyway. How exactly are you going to do that, Trevor? (..)
    2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth