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laboratoryful en · NOUN

Etymology

From laboratory + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a laboratory.
   • But all those colorful bottles and boxes on the store shelves may contain a mad scientist's laboratoryful of other chemicals besides surfactants. 2009, Robert Wolke, What Einstein Told His Barber:
   • If you were to pull back further to see all of Europe you might find at the end of those roads bold new headquarters of chemical companies which employed deskfuls of economists to monitor subsidy payments and adjust pricing in accordance with any change in them, and laboratoryfuls of people working on genetic modifications which would allow their employers to patent seeds themselves. 2006, Richard Benson, The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside:
   • Sex, the subject of librariesful of books, galleriesful of art and even, as we have seen, an occasional laboratoryful of science; the object of inquisitions and persecutions, of worship and reverence; the star of subliminal advertising, the glory of morning glory and the power of the sunflower, the Shaper of the lotus-yoni and mighty Priapus, the three-letter word that rhymes with hex—sex, created by evolution to speed up the dance (so say the Evolutionists), used by the Horned One to ensnare human souls (so say the Creationists). 2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, page 179:

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