lab

Other forms of lab

plural

labs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lab

What does lab mean?

lab means "a workplace for the conduct of scientific research".

How many syllables are in lab?

lab has 1 syllable: lab. In IPA it is /ˈlæb/.

What is another word for lab?

Close synonyms include laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lab a common word?

lab is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.