laboratory

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Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɒɹətɹi/, /ləˈbɒɹətəɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹətɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɔɹ.ə.tɹiː/, /ˈlɛb.ɹəˌtoːɹ.iː/
• Hyphenation: lab‧or‧a‧to‧ry

Noun

laboratory (plural laboratories)

1. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
2. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 325:

     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.

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [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.

Synonyms

• lab (colloquial)
• laboratorium (archaic or nonstandard)

Derived terms

• biolaboratory
• collaboratory
• hot laboratory
• interlaboratory
• intralaboratory
• laboratorian
• laboratorily
• laboratorist
• laboratory assistant
• laboratory coat
• laboratoryful
• laboratory mouse
• laboratory rat
• laboratoryware
• language laboratory
• multilaboratory
• nonlaboratory

Translations

room, building or institution equipped for scientific research

Afrikaans: laboratorium Albanian: laborator (sq) m Arabic: مَعْمَل m (maʕmal), مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar) Aragonese: laboratorio m Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria) Asturian: llaboratoriu m Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az) Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja) Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar) Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija) Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:) Catalan: laboratori (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 實驗室 / 实验室 (sat6 jim6 sat1) Mandarin: 實驗室 / 实验室 (zh) (shíyànshì) Corsican: laburatoriu m, laboratoriu m Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya Czech: laboratoř (cs) f Danish: laboratorium (da) n Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n, lab (nl) n, labo (nl) n Emilian: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: laboratorio (eo), esplorejo Estonian: laboratoorium, labor (et) Finnish: laboratorio (fi), labra (fi), labbis (fi) French: laboratoire (fr) m Friulian: laboratori m Galician: laboratorio (gl) m Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria) German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio) Hebrew: מַעֲבָּדָה (he) f (ma'abadá) Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā) Hungarian: laboratórium (hu), (storeroom for science class) szertár (hu) Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: rannsóknarstofa f, tilraunastofa f Ido: laboratorio (io) Indonesian: laboratorium (id) Interlingua: laboratorio (ia) Irish: saotharlann f Italian: laboratorio (it) m Japanese: 実験室 (ja) (じっけんしつ, jikkenshitsu), ラボ (rabo) Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator) Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratoriä) Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot) Korean: 실험실(實驗室) (ko) (silheomsil), 랩 (ko) (raep) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya) Latin: labōrātōrium n Latvian: laboratorija f Ligurian: laboratöio m Lithuanian: laboratorija f Lombard: laboratori m Low German: East Frisian: laboor n Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija) Malay: makmal (ms) Maltese: laboratorju (mt) Marathi: प्रयोगशाळा (mr) f (prayogśāḷā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori) North Frisian: Laboor n (Sylt) Norwegian: Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n Nynorsk: laboratorium n Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh) Persian: آزمایشگاه (fa) (âzmâyešgâh), لابراتوار (fa) (lâbrâtovâr) Piedmontese: laboratòri m Plautdietsch: Proowkoma f Polish: laboratorium (pl) n, pracownia (pl) f Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m Romagnol: laburatöri m Romanian: laborator (ro) m Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija) Scottish Gaelic: deuchainn-lann m, obair-lann m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лабораториј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian) Roman: laboratorij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian) Slovak: laboratórium n Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: laboratorium m, labor m Sotho: serupa Spanish: laboratorio (es) m Swahili: maabara (sw) Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n, labb (sv) n, labbis (sv) Tagalog: panaliksikan, laboratoryo Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya) Tamil: ஆய்வுகூடம் (ta) (āyvukūṭam) Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä) Telugu: ప్రయోగశాల (te) (prayōgaśāla) Thai: ห้องปฏิบัติการ (hɔ̂ng-bpà-dtì-bàt-gaan) Turkish: laboratuvar (tr) Turkmen: laboratoriýa Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija) Urdu: تجربہ گاہ (ur) m (tajurba-gāh) Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye) Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz) Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi) Welsh: labordy (cy) m Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)

place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured

Albanian: laborator (sq) m Arabic: مُخْتَبَر m (muḵtabar), مَعْمَل m (maʕmal) Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria) Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az) Belarusian: лабарато́рыя f (labaratóryja) Bengali: পরীক্ষাগার (bn) (porikkhagar) Bulgarian: лаборато́рия f (laboratórija) Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွဲခန်း (my) (dhathkwai:hkan:) Chinese: Mandarin: 研究室 (yánjiūshì) Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya Czech: laboratoř (cs) f Danish: laboratorium (da) n Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n Estonian: laboratoorium Finnish: laboratorio (fi) French: laboratoire (fr) m Galician: laboratorio (gl) m Georgian: ლაბორატორია (laboraṭoria) German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n, Laborgebäude n Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio) Hebrew: מַעְבָּדָה (he) f (ma'badá) Hindi: प्रयोगशाला f (prayogśālā) Hungarian: laboratórium (hu) Icelandic: rannsóknarstofu Ido: laboratorio (io) Irish: saotharlann f Italian: laboratorio (it) m Japanese: 研究所 (ja) m (けんきゅうじょ, kenkyūjo) Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator) Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana), лаборатория (laboratoriä) Khmer: ទីពិសោធ (tii pisaot) Korean: 연구실(研究室) (ko) (yeon'gusil) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ezmûngeh (ku), labaratûwar Kyrgyz: лаборатория (ky) (laboratoriya) Lao: ຫ້ອງທົດລອງ (hǭng thot lǭng) Latin: labōrātōrium n Latvian: laboratorija f Lithuanian: laboratorija f Macedonian: лабораторија (mk) f (laboratorija) Malay: makmal (ms) Maltese: laboratorju (mt) Marathi: प्रयोगशाळा (mr) f (prayogśāḷā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: лаборатори (mn) (laboratori) Norwegian: Bokmål: laboratorium (no) n Nynorsk: laboratorium n Pashto: لابراتوار m (lābrātwãr), آزمايشګاه m (āzmāyéšgāh) Persian: آزمایشگاه (fa) (âzmâyešgâh), لابراتوار (fa) (lâbrâtovâr) Polish: laboratorium (pl) n Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m Romanian: laborator (ro) m Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija) Scottish Gaelic: obair-lann m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: лабораториј m (Croatian), лабораторија f (Bosnian, Serbian) Roman: laboratorij m (Croatian), laboràtōrija (sh) f (Bosnian, Serbian) Slovak: laboratórium n Slovene: laboratorij (sl) m Spanish: laboratorio (es) m Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n Tajik: лаборатория (laboratoriya) Tatar: лаборатория (laboratoriyä) Thai: ห้องทดลอง (hɔ̂ng-tót-lɔɔng) Turkish: laboratuvar (tr) Turkmen: laboratoriýa Ukrainian: лаборато́рія (uk) f (laboratórija) Urdu: تجربہ گاہ (ur) m (tajurba-gāh) Uyghur: تەجرىبىخانا (tejribixana), لابوراتورىيە (laboratoriye) Uzbek: laboratoriya (uz) Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi) Yiddish: לאַבאָראַטאָריע f (laboratorye)

See also

• laboratory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia