Lab

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Lab or LAB may refer to:

• Lab (band), a Bolivian salsa band
• LAB (band), a Finnish alternative rock band
• The Lab (band), an Australian electronica outfit
• The LAB, a non-profit art space in San Francisco
• Lab (people), an ethnic group from, or with origins from, Labëria.
• Lab River, a river in Serbia
• CIE 1976 L*a*b* color space, a color space which is derived from the CIE 1931 XYZ color space, but which separates lightness from chromaticity, and is designed to be perceptually uniform.

As a nickname or shortened form:

• Film laboratory, where photographic film is processed
• Laboratory, a place where scientific research and experiments are conducted
• Labrador, a region on the easternmost coast of Canada
• Labrador Retriever, a dog breed

As an acronym:

• Latin American Briton, an ethnic group of the United Kingdom
• Lactic acid bacteria, a group of bacteria useful to the dairy, wine, and food industries
• Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak, a basque national trade union
• Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, the Bolivian national airline
• League of American Bicyclists, the national bicyclist advocacy organization in the United States.
• Linear Alkyl Benzene, a common inexpensive surfactant used in many industrial and household detergent formulations
• Linux as bootloader
• Live aus Berlin, a recording of a 1999 concert by the German band Rammstein
• Long Aston Bypass
• LaB, a company of Lily and Becs

A Place

• Láb- a village near Bratislava in western Slovakia

See also: The Lab