{
    "term": "laboratory",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/la/laboratory_equipment.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a room or building used for scientific research, experiments, testing, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in a/the laboratory",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **clinical/research laboratory**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to send a specimen to the laboratory for analysis"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The effects of weathering can be simulated in the laboratory.",
                    "contextForm": "in a/the laboratory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**laboratory experiments/tests**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The athletes' reflexes were tested **under laboratory conditions**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They work in a laboratory studying growth patterns."
                },
                {
                    "text": "laboratory tests on animals"
                },
                {
                    "text": "simulated driving in a laboratory setting"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education", "Scientific research"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["commercial", "industrial", "school"],
                "laboratory + noun": ["assistant", "scientist", "technician"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the laboratory"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ləˈbɒrətri/",
                "audio": "la/laboratory/laboratory__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlæbrətɔːri/",
                "audio": "la/laboratory/laboratory__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to labour’."
}