laboratory
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
laboratory /ləˈbɒrəˌt(ə)ri, ˈlab(ə)rəˌt(ə)ri/
▶noun (pl. laboratories) a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals.
– origin C17: from med. L. laboratorium, from L. laborare ‘to labour’.
'laboratory' also found in these Oxford entries:
beaker
- bell jar
- bench
- clinical
- clinician
- Draize test
- field
- forceps
- fume cupboard
- guinea pig
- IVM
- kieselguhr
- lab
- language laboratory
- nitinol
- platinum
- retort
- sand bath
- skunkworks
- technician
- test tube
- watch glass
