incubator
IPA: ˈɪŋkjʌbeɪtɝ
noun
- (chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction.
- (medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby.
- An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
- A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
- (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
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Examples of "incubator" in Sentences
- The mound serves as a solar incubator for the eggs and larvae.
- The electricity running the incubator stopped and the baby died.
- We got the idea of incubator from the chicken incubating its eggs.
- Babies go into the incubators usually in the hospital after they are born.
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