LABORATORY

laboratory. Laboratory, n. a place for chemical operations or manufacturing warlike apparatus, &c.

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Lab″o‐ra‐to‐ry (?), n.; pl. Laboratories (#). [[Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See Elaborate, Labor.]] [Formerly written also elaboratory.] The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.