labful

English

Etymology

lab +‎ -ful

Noun

labful (plural labfuls or labsful)

1. Synonym of laboratoryful
   • 2006, Stephanie Rowe, If the Shoe Fits, page 12:

     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obsolete equipment we'd gotten when one of the local universities had built a new science building and tossed all their outdated equipment.

   • 2009, Vivian Gornick, Women in science: then and now, page 107:

     It's more than likely she became a scientist to organize a labful of people and equipment.

   • 2015, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, page 106:

     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.