lablet

English

Etymology

From lab +‎ -let (diminutive suffix).

Noun

lablet (plural lablets)

1. A small-scale laboratory.
   • 2011 April 4, Christopher Mims, “Is the Death of Intel Research a Harbinger of Doom for Privately-Funded Technology Research?”, in MIT Technology Review‎^[1], Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

     Intel recently killed off its three industrial-research "lablets" in Berkeley, Seattle and Pittsburgh. Hardly anyone seems to have noticed, and that's a terrible shame: Privately funded industrial research has given the U.S. and the world some of the most dazzling engineering innovations in history, and its slow demise could stymie innovation in ways that we may never fully appreciate.

   • 2016, Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 27:

     Although open source software seeded this community, it suffered from a lack of hardware. In 2000, to address this deficiency, Intel formed a network of university-based "lablets," some of which worked on how to get a tremendous amount of computing into a constrained space.

Usage notes

• The term is primarily associated with the research centers formerly operated by Intel Corporation.

References

• Paul McFedries (1996–2024) “lablet”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited.