Laboratory Meaning
/ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
nounA place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
Sentence Examples
A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
The new drug will be tested in Vaxgen's laboratory.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chemist spent many hours in the ____ analyzing the new sample.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new scientific ____ is equipped with the latest technology for conducting advanced research tonight.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Late Latin labōrō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Late Latin -tor Late Latin labōrātor Medieval Latin labōrātōrius Medieval Latin labōrātōriumbor. English laboratory Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"[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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The chemist spent many hours in the ____ analyzing the new sample.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new scientific ____ is equipped with the latest technology for conducting advanced research tonight.