labs
SayLABZ/læbz/
- 1Plural of lab.
The research center operates several labs across its main campus.
Many labs were closed for the holiday weekend.
Note
One spelling covers several casual plurals. It counts rooms, and it also counts the tests run in them, so a doctor can say a patient's labs came back normal. Dog owners use it for Labrador retrievers. Written in capitals, LABs is a scientist's shorthand for Lyman-alpha blobs or lactic acid bacteria. That is a different word that only shares the letters.
labs is a form of lab
lab, noun: A laboratory: a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or testing. Full entry
- Forms
- lablabs plural
- Spelling
- lab → labs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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