laboratory

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

la·bora·tory [laboratory laboratories] BrE [ləˈbɒrətri] NAmE [ˈlæbrətɔːri] noun (pl. la·bora·tories) (also informal lab)
a room or building used for scientific research, experiments, testing, etc
•a research laboratory
•laboratory experiments/tests
•to send a specimen to the laboratory for analysis
see also ↑language laboratory
See also: ↑lab

Word Origin:
early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labour’.

Example Bank:
•He runs his own research laboratory.
•She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.
•The athletes' reflexes were tested under laboratory conditions.
•The effects of weathering can be simulated in the laboratory.
•They work in a laboratory studying growth patterns.
•laboratory tests on animals
•simulated driving in a laboratory setting

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  testing ground, lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory