laboratory
Syllables: lab·or·a·to·ry/ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/
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Scotland/ləˈbɔɹətɹe/
laboratory noun: a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
Noun
laboratory (plural laboratories)
- A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
- 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
- [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
laboratory meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
laboratory in Hindi
- room, building or institution equipped for scientific research
- प्रयोगशाला prayogśālā
- place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured
- प्रयोगशाला prayogśālā
laboratory in Tamil
- room, building or institution equipped for scientific research
- ஆய்வுக்கூடம் āyvukkūṭam
laboratory in Marathi
- room, building or institution equipped for scientific research
- प्रयोगशाळा prayogśāḷā
- place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured
- प्रयोगशाळा prayogśāḷā
laboratory in Urdu
- room, building or institution equipped for scientific research
- تَجْرِبَہ گاہ tajriba gāh
- place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured
- تَجْرِبَہ گاہ tajriba gāh
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- laboratory in Bengali
- পরীক্ষাগার porikkhagar
- laboratory in Telugu
- ప్రయోగశాల prayōgaśāla
- laboratory in Malayalam
- പരീക്ഷണശാല, ശാസ്ത്രീയഗവേഷണശാല
- laboratory in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಯೋಗಶಾಲೆ, ಪ್ರಯೋಗಾಲಯ
- laboratory in Gujarati
- પ્રયોગશાળા prayogśāḷā
- laboratory in Nepali
- प्रयोगस्थल prayogsthal
- laboratory in Pashto
- لابراتوار lābrātwãr, آزمايشګاه āzmāyéšgāh
- laboratory in Tagalog
- panaliksikan, laboratoryo
- laboratory in Arabic
- مَعْمَل maʕmal, مُخْتَبَر muḵtabar
- laboratory in Malay
- makmal
- laboratory in Indonesian
- laboratorium
- laboratory in Thai
- ห้องปฏิบัติการ hɔ̂ng-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan, ห้องทดลอง hɔ̂ng-tót-lɔɔng
- laboratory in Vietnamese
- phòng thí nghiệm
- laboratory in Myanmar
- ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း dhathkwai:hkan:
Examples of laboratory in a sentence
- It's time to relocate this experiment from the laboratory into the real world.
- One should not wear leather gloves in the laboratory, because they are not sterilizable.
- One should not wear leather gloves in the laboratory, because they are unsterilizable.
Synonyms of laboratory
Forms of laboratory
| plural | laboratories |
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Origin of laboratory
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
Words formed from laboratory
Phrases with laboratory
Questions about laboratory
- What does laboratory mean?
- Laboratory means a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
- What is laboratory in Hindi?
- Laboratory in Hindi is प्रयोगशाला (prayogśālā). See Laboratory meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is laboratory?
- Laboratory is a noun.
- How do you pronounce laboratory?
- Laboratory is pronounced /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of laboratory?
- The plural of laboratory is laboratories.
Words near laboratory in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: laboratory (page history and authors); laboratory (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laboratory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પ્રયોગશાળા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); प्रयोगस्थल (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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