physics lab
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈfɪzɪks læb/
:
laboratorio de física
- And what about the stunning fact that exotic particles, undetected in any physics lab, greatly outweigh the normal matter content of the universe?
- CERN physics lab
- physics lab in Geneva
- particle physics lab
Examples
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Maybe he's coming from a physics lab at USC.
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Has it been answered in a physics lab somewhere?
Blog text (16) -
I'll be in the physics lab.
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Have they really got that mouse in a physics lab?
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The solution to interstellar travel will come from a physics lab, not an astronaut.
Blog text (4) -
The physics lab will be having a freshman mixer... This Thursday at 6:30 at the quad.
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Hubble sounded good to Frost, especially because he had experience with scientific instruments in the physics lab and as a surveyor in the North Woods during his summer vacations.
Academic text (1990) -
Their experiments, done in the low-temperature physics lab at Cornell University in the early 1970s, showed that below 3 mK, liquid 3He has three new phases, with properties very different from the normal phase.
Academic text (1996) -
The students conducted their experiments in the physics lab to study motion and energy.
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After finishing the lecture, we went to the physics lab to test the new equipment.
Synonyms
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4.1
A room or building with equipment for doing experiments and teaching physics
How Equipped
- US
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6.1
5
3.7
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3.2
1
3.2
- Informal
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'physics' (the scientific study) + 'lab' (a facility for experiments), yielding a laboratory for physics experiments. This noun+noun construction is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Physics lab joins physics (the study of how things move, light and energy) and lab (short for 'laboratory'), so you can picture a room full of machines and tools for testing ideas. That's why it means 'a laboratory where experiments and research in physics are conducted'.