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Laboratory   /lˈæbrətˌɔri/   Listen
Laboratory

noun
(pl. laboratories)  (Formerly written also elaboratory)
1.
A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.  Synonyms: 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.  Synonym: testing ground.  "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"



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"Laboratory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Attendance at dancing is optional with that part of the third class called "yearlings," and compulsory for the "Seps," who of course do not become yearlings till the following September. The third class also receive instruction in the duties of a military laboratory, and "target practice." These instructions are not always given during camp. They may be given in the autumn ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

... the water side, a little westward from the church [at Mortlake]. The buildings which Sir Fr. Crane erected for working of tapestry hangings, and are still (1673) employed to that use, were built upon the ground whereon Dr. Dee's laboratory and other roomes for that use stood. Upon the west is a square court, and the next is the house wherein Dr. Dee dwelt, now inhabited by one Mr. Selbury, and further west his garden." —MS. Ashm. 1788, fol. 149. The same account says that ...
— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee

... them onto the front porch, along with a pencil and a ruled yellow scratch pad. In his experienced future—or his past-to-come—Allan Hartley had been accustomed to doing his thinking with a pencil. As reporter, as novelist plotting his work, as amateur chemist in his home laboratory, as scientific warfare research officer, his ideas had always been clarified by making notes. He pushed a chair to the table and built up the seat with cushions, wondering how soon he would become used to the proportional disparity between himself and the furniture. As he ...
— Time and Time Again • Henry Beam Piper

... of the whisky, he went carefully through the medicine chest, now and again putting aside, with definite purpose, certain bottles and vials. Then he set to work on the food, attempting a crude analysis. He had not been unused to the laboratory in his college days and was possessed of sufficient imagination to achieve results with his limited materials. The condition of tetanus, which had marked his paroxysms, simplified matters, and he made but one ...
— The Faith of Men • Jack London

... meant for humanity. There would have remained in the world no power capable of resisting this grim and ugly tyrant-state, with its brute strength and bestial cruelty as of a gorilla in the primaeval forest, reinforced by the cold and pitiless calculus of the man of science in his laboratory; unless, perhaps, Russia had in time recovered her strength, or unless America had not merely thrown over her tradition of aloofness and made up her mind to intervene, but had been allowed the time to organise her forces for resistance. Of the great empires which the modern age has brought into ...
— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir


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