laboratory

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a workplace for the conduct of scientific research

3. 3
   noun

   a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation

4. 4
   noun

   A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.