All 22 Uses of

laboratory
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude

He gave public praise to the intelligence of a man who from pure astronomical speculation had evolved a theory that had already been proved in practice, although unknown in Macondo until then, and as a proof of his admiration he made him a gift that was to have a profound influence on the future of the village: the laboratory of an alchemist.†
Chpt 1

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals (also used figuratively) OR (as an adjective) related to such a place

According to what he himself said as he spoke to Jose Arcadio Buendia while helping him set up the laboratory, death followed him everywhere, sniffing at the cuffs of his pants, but never deciding to give him the final clutch of its claws.†
Chpt 1

The rudimentary laboratory—in addition to a profusion of pots, funnels, retorts, filters, and sieves —was made up of a primitive water pipe, a glass beaker with a long, thin neck, a reproduction of the philosopher's egg, and a still the gypsies themselves had built in accordance with modern descriptions of the three-armed alembic of Mary the Jew.†
Chpt 1

That certainty, mulled over for several months in the small room he used as his laboratory, brought him to the conception of the plan to move Maeondo to a better place.†
Chpt 1

Ursula watched him with innocent attention and even felt some pity for him on the morning when she found him in the back room muttering about his plans for moving as he placed his laboratory pieces in their original boxes.†
Chpt 1

But since the afternoon when he called the children in to help him unpack the things in the laboratory, he gave them his best hours.†
Chpt 1

Ursula was happy, and she even gave thanks to God for the invention of alchemy, while the people of the village crushed into the laboratory, and they served them guava jelly on crackers to celebrate the wonder, and Jose Arcadio Buendia let them see the crucible with the recovered gold, as if he had just invented it.†
Chpt 2

Showing it all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory.†
Chpt 2

It was enough for him to hear the rocking laughter of Pilar in the kitchen to run and take refuge in the laboratory, where the artifacts of alchemy had come alive again with Ursula's blessing.†
Chpt 2

One afternoon the boys grew enthusiastic over the flying carpet that went swiftly by the laboratory at window level carrying the gypsy who was driving it and several children from the village who were merrily waving their hands, but Jose Arcadio Buendia did not even look at it.†
Chpt 2

He fell into an ill humor, the same as his father's over the failure of his undertakings, and such was his upset that Jose Arcadio Buendia himself relieved him of his duties in the laboratory, thinking that he had taken alchemy too much to heart.†
Chpt 2

Jose Arcadio Buendia and his son did not know exactly when they returned to the laboratory, dusting things, lighting the water pipe, involved once more in the patient manipulation of the material that had been sleeping for several months in its bed of manure.†
Chpt 2

Fascinated by an immediate reality that came to be more fantastic than the vast universe of his imagination, he lost all interest in the alchemist's laboratory, put to rest the material that had become attenuated with months of manipulation, and went back to being the enterprising man of earlier days when he had decided upon the layout of the streets and the location of the new houses so that no one would enjoy privileges that everyone did not have.†
Chpt 3

While his father was putting the town in order and his mother was increasing their wealth with her marvelous business of candied little roosters and fish, which left the house twice a day strung along sticks of balsa wood, Aureliano spent interminable hours in the abandoned laboratory, learning the art of silverwork by his own experimentation.†
Chpt 3

He concentrated so much on his experiments in silverwork that he scarcely left the laboratory to eat.†
Chpt 3 *

Aureliano commented with surprise at lunchtime that he felt very well in spite of the fact that he had spent the whole night in the laboratory gilding a brooch that he planned to give to Ursula for her birthday.†
Chpt 3

But a few days later be, discovered that he had trouble remembering almost every object in the laboratory.†
Chpt 3

Repudiated by his tribe, having lost all of his supernatural faculties because of his faithfulness to life, he decided to take refuge in that corner of the world which had still not been discovered by death, dedicated to the operation of a daguerreotype laboratory.†
Chpt 3

In the workshop, which he shared with Melquiades' mad laboratory, he could barely be heard breathing.†
Chpt 3

In the meantime, Melquiades had printed on his plates everything that was printable in Macondo, and he left the daguerreotype laboratory to the fantasies of Jose Arcadio Buendia who had resolved to use it to obtain scientific proof of the existence of God.†
Chpt 3

Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory, the daguerreo-type room, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed in some high-sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

(1) (laboratory)
a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals

or (as an adjective): related to such a place
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely, lab can be used as an abbreviated way of saying Labrador retriever. It is also a rare last name and may indicate someone's initials.