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Laboratory vs Experimental - What's the difference?

laboratory | experimental |

As a noun laboratory

is a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

As an adjective experimental is

experimental.

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.}}

    experimental

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or founded on experiment.
  • Chemistry is an experimental science .
  • # (sciences) nbsp; Serving to be experimented upon.
  • R was a member of the experimental group , Z was a member of the control group.
  • Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
    his experimental band
    an experimental engine
  • Experiential, empirical.
  • experimental knowledge

    Derived terms

    * experimentally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is experimental.
  • See also

    * control ----