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laboratory
What does laboratory mean?
laboratory (noun): a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use laboratory in a sentence?
- Welcome to our laboratory. (Tatoeba sentence #12056328 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
Where does laboratory come from?
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “laboratory” mean?
arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching
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a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis
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a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
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a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
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