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laboratories

laboratories is the plural of laboratory.

Meaning of laboratory

Noun

laboratory (plural laboratories)

  1. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
  2. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
    • 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

Phrases with laboratories

Questions about laboratories

What is laboratories the plural of?
Laboratories is the plural of laboratory.

Words near laboratories in the dictionary

  1. laborating
  2. laboratoria
  3. laboratorial
  4. laboratorian
  5. laboratorians
  6. laboratories
  7. laboratorily
  8. laboratorist
  9. laboratorists
  10. laboratorium
  11. laboratoriums

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