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Elaboratory vs Laboratory - What's the difference?

elaboratory | laboratory |

As nouns the difference between elaboratory and laboratory

is that elaboratory is (obsolete) a laboratory while laboratory is a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

As an adjective elaboratory

is tending to elaborate.

elaboratory

English

Noun

(elaboratories)
  • (obsolete) A laboratory.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to elaborate.
    • (Webster 1913)

    laboratory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * labouratory

    Noun

    (laboratories)
  • A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
  • A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[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.}}

    See also

    * ("laboratory" on Wikipedia)