laboratory

Definition

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.

Example Sentences

• "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."