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Laboratory : (noun)
1: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research [syn: lab,
research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science
laboratory]
2: a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers
opportunities for observation and practice and
experimentation; "the new nation is a testing ground for
socioeconomic theories"; "Pakistan is a laboratory for
studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"
[syn: testing ground]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Laboratory : \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened
fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See
Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical,
physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a
place where something is prepared, or some operation is
performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Laboratory : Laboratory: A place for doing tests and research procedures and preparing chemicals, etc. Although "laboratory" looks very like the Latin "laboratorium" (a place to labor, a work place), the
word "laboratory" came from the Latin "elaborare" (to work out, as a problem, and with great pains), as evidenced by the Old English spelling "elaboratory" designating "a place where learned effort was
applied to the solution of scientific problems."
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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