lab

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noun (1)

Lab

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noun (2)

Lab

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abbreviation

Labrador

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Noun
Such a tool would be an improvement over current testing kits, which require users to collect either blood or urine and return it to a lab for analysis. Michael Franco may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2025 The company recently opened Cisco Quantum Labs, a dedicated research lab in Santa Monica, CA, where quantum scientists and engineers are building tomorrow’s quantum networking technologies. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 The company was founded as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 and is now in the midst of a contentious effort to transform into a for-profit entity. Hayden Field,jonathan Vanian,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 14 May 2025 Matching those chemicals in a lab has proved difficult. City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lab

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

circa 1868, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1925, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of lab was circa 1868

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“Lab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lab. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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