Definitions

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  • noun An outer space laboratory.

Etymologies

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sky +‎ lab

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Examples

  • I can blog from skylab, but I can't check email from here, and here is the only place I have a computer that will light up.

    What do the power lines and roads in my area have in common? Kosmo 2009

  • I can blog from skylab, but I can't check email from here, and here is the only place I have a computer that will light up.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Kosmo 2009

  • Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed1 gunslinger | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005

  • Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed16 gunslingers | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005

  • Current Music: crown me king- even skylab crashed18 gunslingers | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2005

  • For many years they have been operating on the "MIR" skylab and in spite of the fact that forecasts of a substantial decrease of the value of one watt of the electrical power have not been justified so far, the most effective energy source in space is, nevertheless, a set of solar cells on heterostructures of III-V compounds.

    Zhores I. Alferov - Autobiography 2001

  • At 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plummet uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA's 75-tonnes skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • But I always wondered why we couldn't build a more advanced spacestation than the skylab on steroids we got up there now.

    SPACE.com 2009

  • Nearly three decades back, the fall of skylab had people in a panic.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

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