laboratory

Etymology

From Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.

noun

1. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
2. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
   [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. 2014-06-21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892