laboratory

4 definitions • 7 examples

a room or building with scientific equipment for doing scientific tests or for teaching science, or a place where chemicals or medicines are produced:

research laboratories

a computer laboratory

Laboratory tests suggest that the new drug may be used to treat cancer.

a room or building with equipment for doing scientific tests or for teaching science, or a place where chemicals or medicines are produced:

a physics laboratory

a room or building with equipment for doing scientific tests:

The company makes analytical equipment for industrial and research laboratories.

laboratory analysis/equipment/tests

a company or place where chemicals or medicines are produced:

He is chairman and chief executive officer of vision-care pharmaceutical maker Alcon Laboratories.