- a room or building used for scientific research, experiments, testing, etc.
- a clinical/research laboratory
- to send a specimen to the laboratory for analysis
- in a/the laboratory The effects of weathering can be simulated in the laboratory.
- laboratory experiments/tests
- The athletes' reflexes were tested under laboratory conditions.
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb1, Scientific researchb1- She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.
- They work in a laboratory studying growth patterns.
- laboratory tests on animals
- simulated driving in a laboratory setting
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- commercial
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- assistant
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- in a/the laboratory
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labour’.Definitions on the go
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