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Laboratories

Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. Laboratories. [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See Elaborate, Labor.] [Formerly written also elaboratory.]

  1. The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

  2. Hence: Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a scientific laboratory[1], especially in being conducive to learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where different new policies may be tested prior to adoption throughout the country.

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laboratories

n. (plural of laboratory English)

Usage examples of "laboratories".

The Beller Research Laboratories were established in 2024 by a grant from the late Darwin F.

He remembered that in only two days he would be journeying across the Hudson to see whether the Beller Laboratories people had actually hit on something or not.

His original suspicion that behind the smooth facade of the Beller Research Laboratories lay possible dissension was heightened by Klaus' peculiar behavior on the phone-and the idea of Mitchison doing anything as premature as sending out press handouts now, before the ground had been surveyed and the ice broken, gave him the cold running shudders.

It demonstrates once again that the staggering Seller Laboratories success, which renders death in many cases merely temporary, will unavoidably bring about a massive revolution in our codes of legal and medical ethics, and indeed a change in our entire manner of life.

As acting chairman of the Senate Special Investigating Committee dealing with the problem of the discoveries of the Beller Research Laboratories, I hereby ask for your attention and call this hearing to order.

Raymond, you recognize me, do you not, as a member of the group of United States Senators who visited your laboratories recently?

Klaus, you were formerly employed by the Beller Laboratories, were you not?

But the present management of the laboratories is heading in the wrong direction.

The suit of Klaus and Mitchison against Beller Laboratories had been thrown out of court on the 18th.

You were there when he held up the laboratories and put me in a trance with his whirlwind eyes!

Besides that, I was called to the laboratories to help Professor Spargrove with some kind of meeting for Doc Savage and—"

With the assistance of an army of piano movers, two three-ton copper globes might possibly have been transferred from the Spargrove Laboratories to the big truck.

From before the time John Corbin had run screaming to his death from the Spargrove Laboratories, this figure had been bound to the oozy, filthy wall of stone.

I’m going back to the laboratories and see if Professor Spargrove is all right!

As he sat in the gloomy office of his laboratories, he was apparently a deserted man.