a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
"The team spent the entire afternoon calibrating their equipment in the new lab before starting the experiment."
A laboratory.
"The astronomers spent months analyzing data from a distant LAB to understand how early galaxies formed gas clouds."
A Labrador retriever.
A telltale; a blabber.
Diminutive of Labrador (a breed of dog)
Initialism of Lyman-alpha blob; also LαB or LaB.
In plain English: A lab is a room where scientists do experiments and test things.
"Astronomers are studying the enormous lab to understand early galaxy formation."
Usage: Do not use "lab" to mean an astronomical Lyman-alpha blob in casual conversation, as this technical acronym belongs strictly to astrophysics literature. In everyday usage, the word refers to a laboratory where scientific experiments are conducted.
Abbreviation of Labour.
"After years in opposition, the lab finally secured a majority in parliament last night."
A river in Kosovo
Abbreviation of Labour Party.
The word lab is a shortening of laboratory, which originally combined the Latin root labor meaning work with suffixes to describe a place for scientific experiments. It entered common usage as a clipped form that retained its original sense of a facility where research and testing take place.