laboratory

Definitions

1. office (a room used for non-manual work)
2. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
3. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis
4. workshop
5. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured
6. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
7. laboratory (in a pharmacy)

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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