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lablet

lablet noun: a small-scale laboratory.

Noun

lablet (plural lablets)

  1. A small-scale laboratory.
    • Intel recently killed off its three industrial-research "lablets" in Berkeley, Seattle and Pittsburgh. Hardly anyone seems to have noticed, and that's a terrible shame: Privately funded industrial research has given the U.S. and the world some of the most dazzling engineering innovations in...2011 April 4, Christopher Mims, “Is the Death of Intel Research a Harbinger of Doom for Privately-Funded Technology Research?”, in MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of...
    • Although open source software seeded this community, it suffered from a lack of hardware. In 2000, to address this deficiency, Intel formed a network of university-based "lablets," some of which worked on how to get a tremendous amount of computing into a constrained space.2016, Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 27

Forms of lablet

plurallablets

Origin of lablet

From lab + -let (diminutive suffix).

Questions about lablet

What does lablet mean?
Lablet means a small-scale laboratory.
What part of speech is lablet?
Lablet is a noun.
What is the plural of lablet?
The plural of lablet is lablets.

Words near lablet in the dictionary

  1. lablabs
  2. Lablanc
  3. Lablancs
  4. lable
  5. labled
  6. lablet
  7. lablets
  8. lablit
  9. lablits
  10. labmate
  11. labmates

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