laboratory
noun
- facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/ / /ləˈbɔɹətɹe/ / /-tɹɪ/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
“[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.”