English-Thai Dictionary
laboratory
N ห้องปฏิบัติการ ห้องทดลอง ห้องปฏิบัติการวิจัย lab research lab science lab hong-pa-ti-bad-kan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LABORATORY
n. 1. A house or place where operations and experiments in chimistry, pharmacy, pyrotechny, etc. , are performed.
2. A place where arms are manufactured or repaired, or fire-works prepared; as the laboratory in Springfield, in Massachusetts.
3. A place where work is performed, or any thing is prepared for use. Hence the stomach is called the grand laboratory of the human body; the liver, the laboratory of the bile.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LABORATORY
Lab "o *ra *to *ry, n.; pl. Laboratories. Etym: [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See Elaborate, Labor. ] [Formerly written also elaboratory. ]
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
laboratory
lab o ra to ry |ˈlabrəˌtôrē ˈlæbrəˌtɔri | ▶noun ( pl. laboratories ) a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals: pepsin can be extracted in the laboratory | a film processing laboratory | [ as modifier ] : a laboratory technician. • [ as modifier ] (of an animal ) bred for or used in experiments in laboratories: studies on laboratory rats. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labor. ’
Oxford Dictionary
laboratory
laboratory |ləˈbɒrəˌt (ə )ri, ˈlab (ə )rəˌt (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. laboratories ) a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals: [ as modifier ] : laboratory tests. • [ as modifier ] (of an animal ) bred for or used in experiments in laboratories: laboratory rats. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labour ’.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
laboratory
lab o ra to ry /lǽb (ə )rətɔ̀ːri |ləbɔ́rət (ə )ri /〖labor (労働する )ory (場所 )〗名詞 複 -ries /-z /C 1 実験室 ; 試験所 ; 研究所 (｟くだけて ｠lab ); 〖形容詞的に 〗実験室での , 実験用の ▸ laboratory tests [studies ]研究所での試験 [研究 ]▸ a research laboratory 研究所 ▸ laboratory animals 実験用動物 ▸ a language laboratory LL教室, ラボ 2 (学校の )化学実験室 ; 理科室 .
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