laboratory

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Etymology

From Medieval Latin laboratorium

Pronunciation

(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹəˌtɔɹi/, /ləˈbɔɹətɹi/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹiː/
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(US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/
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Noun

laboratory (plural laboratories)

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
  [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.

Translations

room, building or institution equipped for scientific research

Afrikaans: laboratorium
Albanian: laborator (sq)
Arabic: مَعْمَل‎ m (maʿmal)
Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
Bulgarian: лаборатория f (laboratórija)
Catalan: laboratori (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 實驗室 (zh), 实验室 (zh) (shíyànshì)
Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n, lab (nl) n, labo (nl) n
Esperanto: laboratorio (eo), esplorejo
Finnish: laboratorio (fi), labra (fi)
French: laboratoire (fr) m
German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n
Greek: εργαστήριο (el) m (ergastírio)
Hebrew: מַעֲבָּדָה‎ (he) f (ma`abadá)
Hungarian: laboratórium (hu)
Icelandic: rannsóknarstofa, tilraunastofa
Ido: laboratorio (io)
Interlingua: laboratorio
Irish: saotharlainne

Italian: laboratorio (it) m
Japanese: 実験室 (じっけんしつ, jikkenshitsu), ラブ (ja) (rabu)
Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana)
Korean: 실험실 (ko) (silheomsil) (實驗室 (ko)), 랩 (ko) (raep)
Malay: makmal
Persian: آزمایشگاه‎ (fa) (âzmâyešgâh), لابراتوار‎ (fa) (lâbrâtuâr)
Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
Romanian: laborator (ro) m
Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
Scottish Gaelic: deuchainn-lann m, obair-lann m
Serbo-Croatian: laboràtōrij m
Sotho: serupa
Spanish: laboratorio (es)
Swahili: maabara (sw)
Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
Tagalog: panaliksikan
Telugu: ప్రయోగశాల (te) (prayōgaśāla)
Thai: ห้องปฏิบัติการ (haawngbpadtibatgaan)
Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)

place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured

Albanian: laborator (sq)
Armenian: լաբորատորիա (hy) (laboratoria)
Azerbaijani: laboratoriya (az)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 研究室 (yánjiūshì)
Crimean Tatar: laboratoriya
Czech: laboratoř (cs) f
Dutch: laboratorium (nl) n
Finnish: laboratorio (fi)
French: laboratoire (fr) m
German: Labor (de) n, Laboratorium (de) n
Icelandic: rannsóknarstofu
Ido: laboratorio (io)
Italian: laboratorio (it) m
Japanese: 研究所 (ja) m (けんきゅうじょ, kenkyūjo)

Kalmyk: лаборатор (laborator)
Kazakh: зертхана (kk) (zertxana)
Korean: 연구소 (ko) (yeon-guso) (研究所)
Latin: laboratorium n
Polish: laboratorium (pl) n
Portuguese: laboratório (pt) m
Romanian: laborator (ro) m
Russian: лаборато́рия (ru) f (laboratórija)
Scottish Gaelic: obair-lann m
Serbo-Croatian: laboràtōrij m
Swedish: laboratorium (sv) n
Thai: ห้องทดลอง (haawngthohtlaawng)
Turkish: laboratuvar (tr)
Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm (vi)

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Translations to be checked

Maltese: ^{(please verify)} laboratorju