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labful en · NOUN

Etymology

From lab + -ful.

Meanings

1. Synonym of laboratoryful.
   • She gestured at the labful of obsolete equipment we'd gotten when one of the local universities had built a new science building and tossed all their outdated equipment. 2006, Stephanie Rowe, If the Shoe Fits, page 12:
   • Doc's name then was something like Xqq, and because of the two suns and the way they rose and set, he worked some very complicated shifts, cleaning up after a labful of scientist-priests who invented things in a gigantic facility which had formerly been a mountain of pure osmium. 2015, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, page 106:
   • It's more than likely she became a scientist to organize a labful of people and equipment. 2009, Vivian Gornick, Women in science: then and now, page 107:

Forms

Synonyms

laboratoryful