research lab
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈriːsɜːrʧ læb/
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laboratorio de investigación
- The biologist conducted several experiments in the research lab to study the effects of climate change on plant growth.
- university research lab
- academic research lab
- industry-sponsored research lab
We have a lab, a research lab like Merck.
- We have a lab, a research lab like Merck.
- So like loosely speaking, does it become affordable for like MIT type of research lab?
- And unfortunately, the language like language models we see coming out of research labs and big companies, they're not focused on.
- And now he's the chief scientist of Oculus and the head of Oculus Top Secret Seattle Research Lab.
- So this is Google financing research labs in China that are known to be linked to the Chinese military.
- So we were learning about different techniques that other research labs had used to, to improve the health of, you know, either animals or humans.
- But The thing is, those research labs aren't, there's the big dream.
Examples
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Well, it was a short ride since the research lab was just a mile out of town.
Fiction book (1999) -
The research lab's working 24 hours a day, around the clock, to come up with a counter-agent.
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It's more of a research lab.
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Look, there is no research lab.
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Got that list of former employees that had access to the research lab.
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Basically, if you can imagine it, then several research labs are working on it.
Academic text (2012) -
As she describes it, she fell into the work at the research lab, then fell in love with it.
Academic text (2016) -
I'm setting up the new research lab.
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The arrangement is an interesting example of how industry and national research labs work together.
Academic text (2002) -
I run a research lab on child autism in conjunction with Yale and the Greenwich hospital.
Synonyms
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1.6
A room or building where people do science experiments
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3.0
A room or building where scientists do experiments and tests
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3.4
A place where people study and test ideas to learn new things
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2.8
A room in a school or research building where people do experiments
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3.7
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about science
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3.2
A room or building where people do experiments, research, and teach science
How Big
- Specialized
193
3.4
18
3.7
- Specialized
1
4.9
18
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where scientific research is carried out' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'research' (organized investigation) and 'lab' (facility for experiments). This straightforward noun-noun composition follows common English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Research lab is a name that paints a picture of a room where people do careful study: research means careful study and lab is short for the room where scientists run tests. So, research lab means 'a place where scientists do experiments and study new ideas'.