laboratory

Summary

laboratory ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (926 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• laboratory is a type of facility^[2].
• laboratory is a type of research institute^[3].
• laboratory is a type of study^[4].
• laboratory's Commons category is recorded as Laboratories^[5].
• laboratory comprises laboratory equipment^[6].
• laboratory comprises laboratory technician^[7].
• laboratory's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Laboratories^[8].
• laboratory's Commons gallery is recorded as Laboratory^[9].
• laboratory's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• laboratory's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[11].
• laboratory's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[12].
• laboratory's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[13].
• laboratory's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox laboratory^[14].
• laboratory's different from is recorded as study^[15].
• laboratory's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[16].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include facility^[2], research institute^[3], and study^[4].

Use and Application

Components include laboratory equipment^[6], a type of tool^[17] and laboratory technician^[7], a profession^[18].

Why It Matters

laboratory ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (926 views/month).^[1] laboratory has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] laboratory is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]