Labs
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Labs, labs, or LABS may carry the following meanings:
  • a type of dog known as the Labrador retriever
    Labrador Retriever
    The Labrador Retriever is one of several kinds of retriever, a type of gun dog. A breed characteristic is webbed paws for swimming, useful for the breed's original purpose of retrieving fishing nets. The Labrador is the most popular breed of dog by registered ownership in Canada, the United...

  • labs, a function that calculates the absolute value
    Absolute value
    In mathematics, the absolute value |a| of a real number a is the numerical value of a without regard to its sign. So, for example, the absolute value of 3 is 3, and the absolute value of -3 is also 3...

     of a long integer in the C programming language
  • a spoken form or short form of laboratory
    Laboratory
    A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...

  • Labs (people), the inhabitants of the Labëria region in Albania


As the acronym LABS, may refer to:
  • Low Altitude Bombing System, a system used by some US nuclear-equipped aircraft for toss bombing
  • Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate, a salt of a linear alkylbenzenesulfonic acid (LABSA), used as an anionic surfactant: for example, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate
    Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate
    Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate is a series of organic compounds with the formula C12H25C6H4SO3Na. It is a colourless salt with useful properties as a surfactant. It is usually produced as a mixture of related sulfonates...

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