laboratory coat

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   a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory

   Synonymslab coat

   Broadercoat

Questions about laboratory coat

What does laboratory coat mean?

laboratory coat means "a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory".

What is another word for laboratory coat?

Close synonyms include lab coat. 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 laboratory coat a common word?

laboratory coat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.