laboratory

CEFRB1

/ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/

noun

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noun
A room or building where scientific tests and research are done.
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noun
Extra detail
A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

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[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

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[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
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.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 325

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.