laboratory

A room or building equipped for scientific experimentation or research.

An academic period devoted to work or study in such a place.

A place where drugs and chemicals are manufactured.

A place for practice, observation, or testing.

The space between the fire and the flue-bridges of a reverberatory furnace in which the work is performed.

A room, building, or workshop especially fitted with suitable apparatus for conducting investigations in any department of science or art, or for elaborating or manufacturing chemical, medicinal, or any similar products: as, a chemical or pharmaceutical laboratory; hence, also, figuratively, any place where or in which similar processes are carried on by natural forces.

Milit., an establishment for the manufacture of rockets, port-fires, fuses, percussion-caps, quick-and slow-matches, friction-primers, electric primers, etc., designed for military operations.

The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed.

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.