(n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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