Laboratory vs Lab - What's the difference?
laboratory | lab |
A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
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As nouns the difference between laboratory and lab
is that laboratory is a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis while lab is a laboratory.As an abbreviation Lab is
labrador a breed of dog.laboratory
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Alternative forms
* labouratoryNoun
(laboratories)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.}}