incubator
English
Etymology
From incubate + -or.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾɚ]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [ˈɪn.kjuːˌbeɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
Audio (Brisbane) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
incubator (plural incubators)
- (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.
- Synonym: brooder
- An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs.
- Synonym: brooder
- A place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature.
- (business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
- 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
- So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant? This gets to the heart of the institutional support problem in Wales.
- 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)
Related terms
- incubate
- incubation
- incubative
Translations
chemistry: apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction
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apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby
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apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs
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place to maintain the culturing of bacteria at a steady temperature
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support program for entrepreneurial companies
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Romanian
Etymology
From French incubateur.
Noun
incubator n (plural incubatoare)
- incubator
Declension
Declension of incubator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) incubator | incubatorul | (niște) incubatoare | incubatoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) incubator | incubatorului | (unor) incubatoare | incubatoarelor |
vocative | incubatorule | incubatoarelor |